tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626Sun, 15 Feb 2015 08:29:52 +0000Bus BuildingPersonalPressmy first postThe Photo PalaceThe Photo Palace Bus is a project dedicated to the art of analog photography. Darkroom and presentation area are housed in a 35ft school bus and offer a range of educational and artistic opportunities. http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)Blogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-767689010916663599Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:11:00 +00002014-01-18T17:22:27.405-08:0095 Years Later - Portland Lantern Slide Mission<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; First off let me congratulate everyone with a New 2014 Year!&nbsp; I would like to wish all my readers a great year and may all your images come out better than you expect!&nbsp; I have not written anything on here for a while because the bus and I have been stationed in San Diego and have not done much traveling at all.&nbsp; However the events of earlier this week do deserve a special notice, so here we go - my first update of 2014.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Some of you may remember that about a year ago I published on here a story about purchasing a collection of<a href="http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/01/wwi-and-russian-revolution-photos-found.html" target="_blank"> Magic Lantern Slides taken by John Rahill</a> in Russia during the winter of 1917/18 while he was doing work for YMCA.&nbsp; The story made international news and I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of interest these images generated.&nbsp; Later, during my summer travels, I visited YMCA archives in Minneapolis MN and actually found some good useful information that will come in handy in both explaining my recent discovery and my theories about how things unfolded.&nbsp; </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; This summer I wrote an article about the slides for a magazine caller Russian Life and supplemented it with a few images.&nbsp; This publication focuses on Russian diaspora and historic accounts of the motherland. The article was warmly received and I got a lot of feedback, well wishes on my re-photographing mission and invites for Magic Lantern Shows.&nbsp; One thing that followed though was completely unexpected.&nbsp; 4 months after the article appeared in print I got an email from Portland Oregon in which a grandson of one of YMCA workers who happened to be in Russia on the same mission as Rahill told me that he also has a large collection of lantern slides that his grandfather took during that memorable journey. He said that similarities in the nature of our collection were striking and invited me to come and see the slides for myself.&nbsp; Imagine my excitement when I thought that there is another never before seen set of slides of war-torn Russia as seen through a different set of eyes.&nbsp; The name of his grandfather also appears a few times in note cards that came with my slide set - I assumed that the two men must have traveled together for some time and so took some pictures of each other.&nbsp; I was very much looking forward to seeing new images of John Rahill and to showing my Portland host new images of his grandfather.&nbsp; With that in mind I booked a flight with a plan to stay there for two nights.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I got to Portland on Tuesday evening and was met by Kurt - the kind slide owner who agreed to put me up for couple of nights at his house (I will withhold his and his last name for privacy's sake).&nbsp; Excitement was palpable in the air as we started the short drive from the airport to his place.&nbsp; It was a foggy evening and I think that was very symbolic of the situation - neither of us really knew what to expect from each others pictures.&nbsp; As we drove slowly through the surface streets of northern Portland, Kurt noted that he recognized a picture or two from the ones that were published in Russian Life as also being present in his set.&nbsp; I didn't think much of it.&nbsp; As I mentioned in my previous post I have found a few duplicate images in Stanford archives among Russel Storey's images,&nbsp; it seems that a practice of sharing key frames for personal presentations was present at the time.&nbsp; However, next Kurt described a few images that I possess, but have not published anywhere and that rang some alarm bells.&nbsp; By the time we parked by his house Kurt and I figured out that what I was actually about to see was a complete DUPLICATE set of magic lantern slides made from John Rahill's slides!&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I can't place my feelings with any exactness on the scale between excitement and disappointment after this fact was first realized.&nbsp; On one hand there were new images to be seen and therefore no new visual information to be gained that could help me with my research.&nbsp; On the other hand it was still rather incredible to see a duplicate set of images form 95+ years ago!&nbsp; Remember going to a photo processing facility after a vacation and asking them to make two sets of 4x6 prints so you could give one to your friend who traveled with you?&nbsp; What are the chances of those two sets finding each other nearly a century later?&nbsp; Well these two sets did!</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; When we walked into Kurt's dining room I saw waiting there two suitcases full of lantern slides with exact same red binding as those in my possession.&nbsp; Here they are as I first saw them.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N4JInzi6BZQ/UtmyvLzYmMI/AAAAAAAAE6E/KGlmyzeZxi0/s1600/Second_set_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N4JInzi6BZQ/UtmyvLzYmMI/AAAAAAAAE6E/KGlmyzeZxi0/s1600/Second_set_1.jpg" height="298" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BJT0j_ftKIM/UtmytK7X3MI/AAAAAAAAE58/Xf_UYkR9p04/s1600/Second_Set_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BJT0j_ftKIM/UtmytK7X3MI/AAAAAAAAE58/Xf_UYkR9p04/s1600/Second_Set_2.jpg" height="400" width="298" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As you can see in the first picture some notes of Carl (Kurt's grandfather) were also present, so I was hoping to gain some insights into places visited by him.&nbsp; It turned out that not only those notes were written in such handwriting that none of us could understand more than a word here or there, but what was indeed deciphered did not contain any helpful particulars....&nbsp; I started going through the glass plates rather quickly - by now I have seen them many times and was now looking for images that may be missing from my set.&nbsp; I did not see a single photo that was not the exact duplicate.&nbsp; Now that I'm thinking of it there may have indeed need a few that I thought I had, but in fact only remember from the black and white proof prints and may not have in slide format.&nbsp; Either way at least 98% of the 400 or so plates that Kurt has are exact copies or Rahill collection.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I must add a word of caution to all those who read this and my have some slides stored away in their basement or attics - be careful with these things!&nbsp; They are made of fragile 1mm thick glass and are also sensitive to moisture.&nbsp; Keep them in a dry place and if they are in a basement elevate them from the floor in case of an unexpected flood.&nbsp; When carrying them around try to not turn the cases these slides are kept in onto different sides - carry them in the same position that they are stored in, that glass breaks very easily and while the top cover glass can be easily replaced, the bottom piece carries emulsion and the image and so if that one breaks your slide is toast.&nbsp; It seems that at some point during the last 90+ years Kurt's a lot of slides have come in contact with water, which made the cloth sealing tape come apart and some water even seeped in between the glass and completely dissolved parts of many images.&nbsp; Also there were a lot more broken slides than in Rahill's set - that may be due to them being moved from house to house more times.&nbsp; Still, this is a great find and I was a bit puzzled on how/why would a second set like this be created.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In search for the answer I dove into the research from Minnesota and soon discovered that whenever Rahill's name was mentioned in any correspondence or official logs the name of Kurt's grandfather was right side by side.&nbsp; Not only did they leave for Russia aboard the same ship and were on the same train coming back from Samara, but they were also mentioned as traveling together to the front lines.&nbsp; To top it all off they were both from Cleveland Ohio.&nbsp; Now I am thinking that the two buddies signed up for YMCA service together and must have gone through the entire trip together.&nbsp; It remains to be conclusively proven whether they actually ran the Soldier's Home in Valk together, but in the field report from Rahill reads "Out work...", not "My work", so I take that as a clue to Carl being there with him.&nbsp; That would also explain why Carl would want a complete second set of slides that John took - after all, they have seen the exact same things and lived through the same experience together.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Kurt also had a couple of things I have not seen before that excited me very much.&nbsp; First off was a simple empty box about 3x3.5x4in.&nbsp; To some it may have seemed like an insignificant little paper box with some Russian font on it, but to me it was a little treasure and Kurt kindly gifted it to me seeing how my eyes lit up after I saw it.&nbsp; This is the original box in which John and Carl purchased Magic Lantern Slides from the studio of&nbsp; S. A. Baranov in Moscow.&nbsp; Carl's set also came with a number of these commercial slides that were exact same frames that John brought back with him (though I think there were 5-10 less of them there than what I have).</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Lh5AAO4up9I/UtnB1iHIRUI/AAAAAAAAE6U/J1ubLtAwvIM/s1600/Second_Set_4Box.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Lh5AAO4up9I/UtnB1iHIRUI/AAAAAAAAE6U/J1ubLtAwvIM/s1600/Second_Set_4Box.jpg" height="298" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The best thing though was actually the slide projector that Kurt pulled out late at night.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JNV7AIRheeM/UtnC919wDkI/AAAAAAAAE6g/HBttiL_nhFc/s1600/Second_Set_Projector.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JNV7AIRheeM/UtnC919wDkI/AAAAAAAAE6g/HBttiL_nhFc/s1600/Second_Set_Projector.jpg" height="298" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; This is a double projector (basically actually two projectors in a stack) made by Chas Beseler.&nbsp; It took me a good amount of time next morning to figure out the exact configuration in which is was intended to function, but eventually I got it all together and found out that it's only missing very few non-essential screws.&nbsp; The projector actually came with two sets of lenses (10 and 15in) and the original cross-fade attachment that you can see in front of the lenses.&nbsp; These attachments are relatively fragile and not too many of them have survived intact.&nbsp; After seeing my excitement Kurt kindly contributed this old beast to The Photo Palace Bus arsenal and now this is the projector I will be using during my slide shows.&nbsp; This will do two things for the show - make my life a lot easier because I can now adapt much quicker to any combination of room and screen size and make the viewing experience a lot more smooth and enjoyable because I will be able to switch out some of the older slides that I exhibit while the one is still being projected.&nbsp; Previously at the beginning of my program when those older slides are featured I had to have a moment of blank white lite upon the screen while I took out one slide and replaced it with the next one.&nbsp; With this projector one slide can be upon a screen while I replace the slide in the other carrier and then cross-fade to it - no more white screen time! </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Well, that concluded my short tale of a Portland Lantern Slide Adventure.&nbsp; I would like to thank Kurt and his wife Anette for sharing their home with me, what excellent and pleasant hosts they are.&nbsp; Maybe next time I'm in the area I can grab some supplies and spend some time repairing the damage to some of Kurt's slides so to lessen the stress on broken slides and to prevent oxidation in those that are missing sealing tape or have broken cover glass.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I also wanted to quickly mention that my Book Campaign is still ongoing and there are less than three weeks to pitch in, help me write an great story and get yourself a beautiful tintype plate.&nbsp; Please click <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tintype-summer-the-book" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see all the possibilities.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2014/01/95-years-later-portland-lantern-slide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-5306562030265557775Sun, 03 Nov 2013 03:12:00 +00002013-11-02T20:12:49.514-07:00Short Fall CA Adventure <span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Here is a little summary of what has happened in the past week and a half.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A short while ago I was asked to visit my old Alma Mater San Jose State University to be featured in their Humanities and Arts Showcase event.&nbsp; I was more than happy to do so as it provided me yet another opportunity for a short road trip before the end of the year along with being able to support the school I owe so much of my development as an artist to.&nbsp; To make this trip more productive (and to try to recoup the funds that had to be spent on diesel) I also contacted SJ Institute of Contemporary Arts to see if they would like to host a tintype portrait session as part of the first Friday art walk in San Jose.&nbsp; They were happy to do this and so I set off toward SF Bay Area.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On the drive north I stopped for a night at the house of Lori Pond in Pasadena.&nbsp; Lori found me through a mutual friend and was interested in setting up the darkroom and acquiring the gear needed to start practicing wet plate photography.&nbsp; I was thrilled to have an opportunity to be involved in a birth of another darkroom.&nbsp; I spent a couple of weeks prior to the trip gathering together all the gear and when I showed up on Lori's doorsteps I was bearing all ingredients needed for her to get started.&nbsp; I even brought her a beautiful darkroom sink that's been in my darkroom for a while now - I'm happy that soon it will contribute to image-making once again!</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The drive north was uneventful - I took my time and gave this 400mi drive a whole day rather than trying to do it all at once.&nbsp; This was a great decision and when I got to SJSU late at night I finally could say that a long drive didn't cost me too much pain and suffering.&nbsp; Luckily the parking behind the art building was reserved and so I pulled in there and went to sleep in peace.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On Friday morning I wanted to make a few plates before students and prospective students were to start coming through the bus for tours.&nbsp; I can't say that SJSU has the most picturesque campuses I have ever seen, but it was MY campus and so I felt strongly that I should document whatever was around me through my years as a student there.&nbsp; As I mentioned above, I was parked in the back of the art building and so that was where I made the following images.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jnWhmzF9ViI/UnKf7OgdSfI/AAAAAAAAE3U/mEMZeGlAwWg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_SJSU-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jnWhmzF9ViI/UnKf7OgdSfI/AAAAAAAAE3U/mEMZeGlAwWg/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_SJSU-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Iyw3xgqLUQ/UnKf7NroJ_I/AAAAAAAAE3Q/lt01WQduHsQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_SJSU-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Iyw3xgqLUQ/UnKf7NroJ_I/AAAAAAAAE3Q/lt01WQduHsQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_SJSU-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PBt99Ciif9Y/UnKf7Fp1pzI/AAAAAAAAE3M/loe9YlDqFNo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_SJSU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PBt99Ciif9Y/UnKf7Fp1pzI/AAAAAAAAE3M/loe9YlDqFNo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_SJSU.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; At about 11am the flow of students began as a steady stream and I had quite a lot of visitors all through the afternoon.&nbsp; It was great to see some of my old professors too!&nbsp; What a marvelous time it was when I was in school - spending nights upon night in the darkroom and taking all sorts of art classes in various disciplines.&nbsp; If I could do it all again I would do the exact same thing with no drop of regret (well, maybe I would learn to draw before taking lithography...).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; My next engagement was not until next Friday, so I was left exploring Bay Area with Gilli-the-bus as my companion.&nbsp; I decided to stay for a few nights with one of my ex-classmates James Pollard, who lives not to far from campus.&nbsp; James is a painter and came into the fine art program 'straight off the streets', meaning he never had any kind of prior experience in the area, but was compelled to be a painter via a personal revelation.&nbsp; Now he is pursuing it with vigor and I hope he will soon have a website where we all can see his work.&nbsp; For now I present to you this tintype of James in his back yard.&nbsp; We chose to have him wear his graduation gown and a helmet and armor that he made for one of his class projects. I think it's rather symbolic, but I will leave it to you my dear reader to read into the symbolism for yourself.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uqYgG5h9Rgg/UnGZa-ru3rI/AAAAAAAAE1c/Jv0rtmwb-j4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_James.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uqYgG5h9Rgg/UnGZa-ru3rI/AAAAAAAAE1c/Jv0rtmwb-j4/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_James.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It seems like darkrooms are popping up now at a pretty incredible rate (or maybe it's just me concentrating on this, so that's all I see).&nbsp; An online friend of mine Chris Blevins-Morrison whom I met last time I was in Bay Area happened to have gotten an offer of picking up an entire darkroom set-up for free and was eager to do that.&nbsp; Unfortunately the equipment was about 250 miles away and she was not looking forward to driving that much by herself and the prospect of lugging some of the heavier pieces once she got there.&nbsp; I volunteered to come along and we had a great time on the road to and back from Sequoia National Forest.&nbsp; Chis works as a nurse, but is getting very involved with photography and I applaud her especially for working with film and alternative processes.&nbsp; She is working on a project about women artists and is still finalizing what process will be used in printing those images.&nbsp; The cool thing is that they will NOT be digital.&nbsp; She shoots with a Rolleiflex (another kudos from me) and now got herself a 5x7 view camera as well.&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; We chose to take highway 178 from Bakersfield to get to our destination.&nbsp; This two lane road winds rapidly at the bottom of a steep canyon.&nbsp; On one hand I wished I had the bus with me so I could make some tintypes, but on the other hand I was glad to be driving a much smaller vehicle.&nbsp; The canyon finally opens up onto Lake Isabella and here are a couple of Fuji Intax images of that.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ockThvRnTys/UnGgXNv2scI/AAAAAAAAE24/NzqIND5DONQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Fuji_Instax_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ockThvRnTys/UnGgXNv2scI/AAAAAAAAE24/NzqIND5DONQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Fuji_Instax_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1SA5RB2kfsY/UnGgXHm7SrI/AAAAAAAAE20/EnoXYXKuDXk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Fuji_Instax_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1SA5RB2kfsY/UnGgXHm7SrI/AAAAAAAAE20/EnoXYXKuDXk/s400/Photo_Palace_Fuji_Instax_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The equipment we were to pick up at one point belonged to a photographer who lived in Wofford Heights.&nbsp; Recently he has developed dementia and is now living in a care facility, so his double-wide trailer home complete with a darkroom is now being cleaned up for an upcoming sale.&nbsp; Judging by the equipment he knew what he was doing and I wish I could see some of his images.&nbsp; There were lots of Linhoff 4x5 holders, Zone VI gadgets and the Omega 2D enlarger had a really nice cold light head on it.&nbsp; There was even a really cool old Beseler enlarger table the likes of which I have never seen - that thing took us a little while to disassemble, but it was all worth it.&nbsp; Chris was really happy to get all that she needed for a darkroom (and more) in one place and I could see that she really appreciated the history of this equipment as well.&nbsp; I hope it serves her for a long time.&nbsp; We drove home to Bay Area tired, but happy.&nbsp; The road back was once again filled with photo-talk and I couldn't have been happier.&nbsp; We must have gotten back around 4am....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I must say that two of my favorite things about that area are the redwood-covered hills and the coastline.&nbsp; With that in mind I decided to dive into Big Basin State Park to make a couple of plates.&nbsp; The drive west on a tiny and extremely windy highway 9 could be a challenge even for a car, but in a 35ft bus it was a serious feat.&nbsp; Nonetheless I made it almost to the official park entrance when I saw a place to pull over that was surrounded by scenery that I could see myself photographing.&nbsp; Redwoods are some of the biggest trees on the planet (in fact the tallest tree in the world is indeed a redwood), so I decided to step up from my regular 4x5 and make some 8x10 images instead.&nbsp; If you have ever been in a forest of tall pine you probably remember how extremely spotty the light is and how contrasty the entire scene is, so it was a bit difficult to shoot with already high-contrast wet plate emulsion... Here is Gilli surrounded by the forest and the two 8x10 plates that resulted from the shoot.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEaFaWQKkuk/UnGchTUbI_I/AAAAAAAAE2M/XCoOHhqu_qE/s1600/Photo_Palace_in-Redwoods.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEaFaWQKkuk/UnGchTUbI_I/AAAAAAAAE2M/XCoOHhqu_qE/s400/Photo_Palace_in-Redwoods.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B7vN7t0fyPs/UnGbAMBMI5I/AAAAAAAAE1s/xYRGzWlguos/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Redwoods_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B7vN7t0fyPs/UnGbAMBMI5I/AAAAAAAAE1s/xYRGzWlguos/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Redwoods_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-seleBnp4miA/UnGbAD7PzkI/AAAAAAAAE1o/3m3eCRCcQGw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Redwoods_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-seleBnp4miA/UnGbAD7PzkI/AAAAAAAAE1o/3m3eCRCcQGw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Redwoods_2.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The next day I thought I should go explore the coastline above Half Moon Bay on the way to my friend Kirill Klylov's place in Pacifica.&nbsp; I chose the lesser of all hills that lead across the hills to the coast - highway 92.&nbsp; Still, the going was very slow and I had to pull off at almost every possible place to let by the traffic that quickly stacked behind me.&nbsp; At one of such pull-offs I was surrounded by a very cool looking forest and decided to stop for a while and shoot.&nbsp; I really love the way these images turned out.&nbsp; Oh yeah, exposure times were up to 1min 20sec at f8!&nbsp; It was VERY deep shade there....</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FqkB6_UHVCY/UnGcQzXsqtI/AAAAAAAAE2A/qSVwU0wn5Nk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Forest_I92_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FqkB6_UHVCY/UnGcQzXsqtI/AAAAAAAAE2A/qSVwU0wn5Nk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Forest_I92_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JKwVYfOIzCM/UnGcQoCZvbI/AAAAAAAAE18/or_3Qtg8Jis/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Forest_I92_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JKwVYfOIzCM/UnGcQoCZvbI/AAAAAAAAE18/or_3Qtg8Jis/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Forest_I92_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; I was closer than I thought to the coast and so had time to make quite a few tintypes before the sun went down.&nbsp; I won't bore you with all of them, but here is an image of Gilli on the beautiful California coast and a couple of my favorite plates taken by the town of Pacifica.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-55_wfLG4C20/UnGdPhYHnhI/AAAAAAAAE2o/ZFXsXOVP_z4/s1600/Photo_Palace_On_The_Coast.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-55_wfLG4C20/UnGdPhYHnhI/AAAAAAAAE2o/ZFXsXOVP_z4/s400/Photo_Palace_On_The_Coast.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6_Aux2HhKc4/UnGdEEvNo6I/AAAAAAAAE2c/vX77xVpzVT0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_CA_Coast.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6_Aux2HhKc4/UnGdEEvNo6I/AAAAAAAAE2c/vX77xVpzVT0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_CA_Coast.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yxo4hVbO8C4/UnGdED_asTI/AAAAAAAAE2Y/juaN_yQ8FMc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Water.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yxo4hVbO8C4/UnGdED_asTI/AAAAAAAAE2Y/juaN_yQ8FMc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Water.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On Thursday I headed back to San Jose area and once again stayed the night at James Pollard's place in Campbell.&nbsp; The next day I had a tintype shoot scheduled at SJICA and this was to be my first real shoot using strobe lighting, so I wanted to practice one more time to nail down the exposure and all that.&nbsp; We waited till pretty late at night to start the shoot (which might explain the expression on James' face), but I pretty much nailed the shot from first plate (to be completely honest the very first plate was ruined by me forgetting to take the lens cap off, but the first plate that did receive light was the one that worked out, so I count that as a win).&nbsp; Here is James once again, but under artificial light:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mN7tn6liDKA/UnW48Q8R8HI/AAAAAAAAE3s/dBT4MoP8GOI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_James_Pollard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mN7tn6liDKA/UnW48Q8R8HI/AAAAAAAAE3s/dBT4MoP8GOI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_James_Pollard.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Friday I pulled up to<a href="http://www.sjica.org/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank"> SJICA</a> earlier than need be and parked Gilli right in front.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t9Z69c1hPpk/UnW6AzYP3GI/AAAAAAAAE34/DRu9ilo5i8c/s1600/Photo_Palace_at_SJICA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t9Z69c1hPpk/UnW6AzYP3GI/AAAAAAAAE34/DRu9ilo5i8c/s400/Photo_Palace_at_SJICA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Because it was still light out and I thought that people won't start showing up till much later I decided to walk up 1st street to see how San Jose has changed in the past couple of years.&nbsp; Well, it hasn't changed too much, but imagine my surprise when I ran into Dora Lee - an old classmate of mine from back in SJSU days.&nbsp; We had a good time catching up and she later stopped by the shoot as well.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I got back to the bus just before 5 thinking that I'll have plenty of time to set up, test everything, wait for the light to go down and then start shooting.&nbsp; Well, that was not to be so - there was already a couple with two kids waiting by the bus to have their tintype made!&nbsp; I scrambled to set up the background (which, by the way, I have sown magnets into so now it's really quick to attach it directly to the bus and it will NEVER blow over!), the camera and chemistry.&nbsp; While doing all that I gave my first customers a brief overview of things pertaining to collodion and showed them my samples.&nbsp; After I set up the chemistry and camera it dawned on me to ask what size image they would want.&nbsp; I was offering 3.5x4.5, 4x6 and 8x10.&nbsp; To my delight they decided to go with the 8x10.&nbsp; That meant a quick change in the darkroom setup, but they were very patient and looked over my movements with interest.&nbsp; Also, by the time we were set to go the sun was still out and though the background was in the shade I still think it would have given us a ghost image if I was to do a natural light in combination with flash, so I decided to go all natural with exposure time being about 12 seconds.&nbsp; That is a LONG time for anyone, but especially a 4 year old boy to sit still (I think that's how old the youngest one was.... I'm not good at estimating these things).&nbsp; We had to do two plates in the end - in the first one both he and his sister were pretty fidgety and came out as classic collodion blurs, while during the second exposure the girl sat vary still and the boy only moved for a second, so came out much better than the first time.&nbsp; Here is that 8x10 after varnishing - I think it came out rather well considering the circumstances.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7MEn0JM6tHA/UnW8EPu1zzI/AAAAAAAAE4E/GjDAkq1Kdts/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Family_SJICA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7MEn0JM6tHA/UnW8EPu1zzI/AAAAAAAAE4E/GjDAkq1Kdts/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Family_SJICA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next I did a couple of portraits of some of the staff of ICA and this time there was no problems with movement at all because the flashes were in use.&nbsp; Here they are while still in the wash.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hqmek1UdQVI/UnW8hVeAS7I/AAAAAAAAE4M/vIqTasQ_2zQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portraits_SJICA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hqmek1UdQVI/UnW8hVeAS7I/AAAAAAAAE4M/vIqTasQ_2zQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portraits_SJICA.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; There was a steady stream of people coming by all the way till 10pm, but I can't say that too many of them were there to have their portraits taken, still I made just enough money to pay for the gas on this trip and that made me happy.&nbsp; What was also cool is that someone stopped by with a Impossible Project Daylab - this is a new gadget on the market made by the guys who are bringing back Polaroid film.&nbsp; The interesting thing about this thing is that it takes your iPhone image and prints it on their instant film!&nbsp; So here is an image that crosses into 3 centuries - a man (me) born in the 20th century, looking through a lens made in 19th century, captured with 21st century iPhone and then printed on instant film the technology for which was developed again back in 20th century!&nbsp; What a trip! By the way - their films have come a long way since they first started putting it out and now I'm really close to being able to say that they are actually good....</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KMCwHONwAqU/UnW90FnIAbI/AAAAAAAAE4Y/ORKfgITRi8M/s1600/Photo_Palace_Polaroid_Impossible_Project_Anton_Orlov.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KMCwHONwAqU/UnW90FnIAbI/AAAAAAAAE4Y/ORKfgITRi8M/s400/Photo_Palace_Polaroid_Impossible_Project_Anton_Orlov.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After the shoot I went out for a beer with some of my old San Jose friends and then started to drive back south.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It was another uneventful drive I am now sitting in a coffee shop in Glendale and waiting for Lori Pond to get back home so we can start to work on her wet plate darkroom.&nbsp; Tomorrow we should install the vent and the sink and then we'll get a chance to test out all her gear and chemistry, that should be fun.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; And so comes to the end my short trip up to the Bay Area.&nbsp; It was fun and I hope to do this again - I think CA is a great place to travel in the winter - it's big enough and most of it doesn't get cold enough to be prohibitive to Gilli-the-Gillig.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/11/short-fall-ca-adventure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-1060226603280758418Sat, 12 Oct 2013 02:58:00 +00002013-10-11T19:58:32.391-07:00Found In America - Route 66 Tintype Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; OK,&nbsp; it's been a week since Gilli and I got back home to San Diego after 4 months on the road, and only now have I had a chance to catch my breath and to sort through most of the plates made while traveling.&nbsp; It's been an incredible trip and I can not even begin to recollect all the great things that happened along the way - thank goodness I have the previous blog entries to remind me of all of it in the years to come.&nbsp; A quick and rough count revealed that there are about 350 3.5x4.5in tintypes that were created in 4 months, but that doesn't include all the ones that got sold or were commissioned to begin with and it also doesn't include larger size plates, so I think it's close to 400 overall.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As promised in the previous post this one contains tintypes from Route 66, which is the route I took home from Chicago to LA, and the short recollection of that stretch of my travels. </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; A bit about the project.&nbsp; I call it 'Found In America' for several reasons.&nbsp; First off I, as an immigrant, am still finding the parts of US that are forgotten by media lime light to be fascinating.&nbsp; After finding myself here at the age of 16 I have never stopped looking for new aspects of this country be they it's history, current culture or lanscape.&nbsp; Secondly the imagery is of completely empirical nature with no guidance from elaborate travel booklets or inviting road signs.&nbsp; Whatever scenes the road was to present me with would be immortalized in tintype format with equal attention.&nbsp; Lastly, by now Route 66 pretty much HAS to be looked for and discovered.&nbsp; Large stretches of it have been completely incorporated into modern freeways, some sections have been abandoned and are no longer drivable and a lot of parts wind through towns and countryside without any clear signs pointing one where to go, so the process of discovery was to be a big part of this project.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Some of you may know that Route 66 is known as the Mother Road.&nbsp; For a few decades before completion of the interstate highway system this road was the major route for travelers to take from mid western US to the Pacific.&nbsp; Built in late 1920s the road retained it's popularity into the 50s and 60s, but now is completely overpowered by highways travel and lays nearly forgotten.&nbsp; I wanted to find out for myself how The Road looks - to me that meant that I should concentrate on the Actual Road in my photography.&nbsp; None of that 'exploring the sites' stuff - what does The Road itself offer as far as imagery?&nbsp; What would travelers of today see if they were heading west down the Mother Road?&nbsp; How would the landscape change and what would that look like if we were to be looking west in the direction of our travels.&nbsp; Sounds like a simple enough assignment, right?&nbsp; Well, try adding a tintype format into that mix and you might think differently...</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Route 66 heads almost directly south from Chicago, then curves south-west around Missouri before running almost directly west from Texas to California.&nbsp; That meant that I had to shoot in the direction of the sun for about 60-70% of the time!&nbsp; That was challenge #1.&nbsp; Challenge #2 was the fact that wet plate photography requires that the bus be stopped and parked (preferably on a relatively level surface), chemistry and camera must be set up and the plate prepped, exposed, processed and washed before chemistry and camera were put way and the bus started up again...&nbsp; Route 66 runs just over 2.400 miles and I managed to get 118 plates done during 12 days.&nbsp; So on average I was stopping every 20 miles.&nbsp; That means that the huge CAT engine had to be started over 100 times and sometimes up to 14 times a day...&nbsp; I don't know what that did to the starter and pistons, but I just thank god that I made it back without another major mechanical issue popping up.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The first sign for beginning of historic Route 66 is located downtown Chicago on a very busy Adams street.&nbsp; I was determined to start the series with that image, but that meant navigating a 35ft bus through Chicago traffic and then praying for a suitable parking spot withing sprinting distance from where the camera had to be set up.&nbsp; Chicago does have some heavy traffic, but I managed to get to Adams St. and when I was rounding the turn I quickly realized that any hope of a parking place was in vane - skyscrapers all around, left side of the one way street completely full of cars parked in metered slots and the right-hand lane reserved for city buses only!&nbsp; What was I to do..?&nbsp; Thinking on my feet I decided that I will do my very best to get this shot done in the minimum amount of time possible and that in the 15 minutes or so that I will be there I will just hope that no parking enforcement will take place.&nbsp; So I boldly pulled right into the Buses Only lane (after all - Gilli is a bus, right?), turned on emergency flashers and, with cars zooming by and pedestrian rushing in a steady drove past Gilli, I hustled in the darkroom as fast as I possibly could.&nbsp; In fact the location was so picturesque that I decided to pull one more plate after the first one was secured, so I was probably parked there for about 20-25 minutes and indeed didn't attract any unwanted attention!&nbsp; It wasn't even 4 blocks from that location that I again saw a composition that demanded to be captured and so again I quickly chose a totally prohibited area to park in, and again nobody bothered me during the making of the third plate!&nbsp; I think that was the most exciting moment in the whole trip and so I thought it deserved a special mention.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After downtown Chicago the road quickly dives into suburbia and then into the open fields of Illinois.&nbsp; From then on parking was no problem all the way until I got to Los Angeles. I followed turn by turn directions given by <a href="http://www.historic66.com/">www.historic66.com</a>, so I had some idea where to go.&nbsp; I found that the route is marked best in Illinois, followed by New Mexico.&nbsp; In some parts of it there were no plaques at all distinguishing it from an average surface street that runs through any small American town, so I had to follow those directions pretty carefully (can't even recall how many times I got off the road and only realized it many miles later).&nbsp; The guide recommends driving down a small access road during parts of the road that at swallowed by a larger freeway - those roads are very poorly maintained and after taking a few of them I decided to opt out of that and to go on the highway until Route 66 splits back off from it.&nbsp; I still got onto those access roads here and there, but also did a lot of highway driving.&nbsp; The completely abandoned parts that are not drivable now were also off the list as Gilli is not an off-road vehicle, driving around all the potholes in all the little towns was already hard enough on her suspension.&nbsp; I do think that considering these circumstances I did stick to the actual Route 66 for about as much as it was humanly possible, so I'm pretty happy with that outcome.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; So, what did I see?&nbsp; Well...&nbsp; America is a large country and one gets a really good feel for that when one is out in the middle of nowhere, somewhere on a two-lane highway.&nbsp; There were many towns built around the tourist traffic brought in by the road - now a lot of those towns lay either completely abandoned or are dilapidated to the point where they probably should be abandoned.&nbsp; Some places had other things going for them, some other industries to keep the town alive after the tourists were gone.&nbsp; Those cities and towns have almost invariably homogenized into average culture-lacking dwelling concentrations with same shops and fast food joints lining the street no matter which state they are in.&nbsp; There are however some little towns that are probably surviving on local agriculture, but which are too small for major chains to get into, so they lay nearly intact as they were in 1930s in a state of suspended preservation.&nbsp; Those places offered me a glance of what pre-WWII America must have been like and I really appreciated that.&nbsp; I have to say that the landscape itself and it's gradual changes from the forests of the east to the western deserts was quite a marvelous thing to experience.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I drove steadily westward, stopping to make about 10 plates a day.&nbsp; I slept mostly in the bus and chose locations to park overnight so that in the morning I would often make the first exposure right from that spot.&nbsp; A couple of times I did get motel rooms, but found that although the experience of sleeping in a real bed was gratifying beyond words, the comfort was too much and I would wake up too late for my liking and the sun would be almost ready to dip into that western part of the sky making all my subjects back lit for the rest of the day...&nbsp; Very frustrating!&nbsp; In either case though, I believe I managed to pull some good plates and that's all that matters.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As most people know, and others refuse to believe, there are some good people everywhere you go.&nbsp; Wherever I pulled over for the night I met some friendly locals or those rare tourists who were still looking to recapture some of the glamor of the old Mother Road.&nbsp; Whenever possible I would show them the process of making tintypes and invariably they were grateful for that opportunity.&nbsp; I had great weather accompany me (now that I think about it, the weather was actually amazingly nice the entire 4 months of the second cross-country trip!) and it rained only once and even then during the night when I was tucked away in a hotel bed in Texas.&nbsp; The rest of the time it was sunny and warm, only in the deserts of Arizona and eastern California did it start to get a little too warm for comfort, once again making me wish I had the funds for an A/C unit...</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I loved seeing all the quaint Main Streets in small towns that I passed through.&nbsp; The little mom and pop shops that are still surviving amid the boarded up buildings and shiny new Wallmarts made me think about the resilience of American entrepreneurs and the strength of the will to be your own boss.&nbsp; More power to them - I supported as many local shops along the way as I could, but I'm sure they can use a lot more help.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The middle of the stretch was the hardest.&nbsp; The road goes through the panhandle of Texas and there it's completely barren, straight and devoid of any visual stimulus...&nbsp; You'll find some of the images from stretches like that below - they are easy to spot.&nbsp; When the road goes through New Mexico and Arizona it actually follows the higher plateaus of those states and so that makes for some really stunning scenery, I highly recommend that area for your next vacation getaway.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; When I got close to the overwhelming urban sprawl that is Los Angeles I was quite ready to call the whole thing off.&nbsp; I was tired, it was starting to get hot and I was only 120 miles away from my home!&nbsp; From Barstow I could have just taken I-15 south and would have been back in 3 hours...&nbsp; How could have I abandoned the project though?&nbsp; Never!&nbsp; I pushed onward and stayed on the road one more day.&nbsp; I fought through LA traffic, weaved on and off it's many freeways and parked where no human was meant to be parked - all in the name of Art.&nbsp; I think the ending was most symbolic.&nbsp; While the rest of the road contains a lot of neatly mounted historic markers they are almost entirely absent in the city of angels and in fact the spot where the mighty Route 66 finally comes to an end there is NO marker at all to commemorate that.&nbsp; So physically Route 66 ends in complete obscurity, just like it seems to be ending in the history of America's development as a country.&nbsp; I parked in the lot of Western Dental on the corner or Lincoln Blvd and Olympic in Santa Monica, made exposure #118 and that was it!&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Here are 117 images (I must have missed one plate while copying them yesterday, so there is a 'mystery plate') from this project.&nbsp; I chose to display them with only plate #1 being in order - the rest of them are as random as the project itself.&nbsp; The road goes on forever with the asphalt and the westerly view orientation being the only constants.&nbsp; I did not varnish the plates right away, but kept them in 4x5in sleeves inside a Beseler binder - some of them survived perfectly well, but a few (I think there are 4-5 of them) have chosen to jump out those sleeves and got pretty badly damaged due to a thousand miles worth of traveling free.&nbsp; I guess that just adds character and road-cred to them.&nbsp; I copied them using a Canon 5DII and 100mm macro lens.&nbsp; Here I again must make a note - there is NO WAY to copy all the information on a plate by using a modern camera or even a high resolution scanner AND on top of that you are looking at a screen-resolution JPEG, so....&nbsp; yeah.... the plates are a lot more beautiful that one can imagine.&nbsp; I am hoping to exhibit this whole body of work and would love to hear of any offers for such an exhibit from my readers.&nbsp; At the exhibit I would I would like to provide a high-power loupe by some of the plates so those who wish could really get into the real details of the image.&nbsp; Let's just say that with an average magnifying device I was able to very clearly read the word 'Australia' on one of the stickers on the pole below the Route 66 Begin sign in the first frame, in these JPEGs you probably won't even be able to distinguish that there is indeed an sticker there with an Australian flag....</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I am open to making prints (up to 20x30in) of these plates.&nbsp; If you are interested in purchasing them, please feel free to contact me via email.&nbsp; While the images below are very quick digital copies with minimal attention paid to tonality the prints for sale would be scanned at very high resolution and adjusted so they are the closest possible representations of the original tintype plates in tonal range and color.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HNgTk8Co0IE/UliSMnXIO5I/AAAAAAAAEmI/ZhZq2aM-E_U/s320/Tintype_Route_66_Photo_Palace_Bus-1.jpg" width="248" /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jzld0XPPp5k/UliTtlyHFEI/AAAAAAAAEpg/SbuyweaOag0/s1600/Tintype_Route_66_Photo_Palace_Bus-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4q7COtJK1A8/UliTbmMagcI/AAAAAAAAEog/wn9Mzaqza1Q/s320/Tintype_Route_66_Photo_Palace_Bus-117.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Oh - just to frustrate even further the folks upset about the lack of order in the images above, and surely there will be some of those, here is a list of all the plates I did IN ORDER of their creation and separated by day.&nbsp; Think you can match them all up?&nbsp; Be my guest!</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">--- </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1&amp;2- Adams - Michigan<br />3- Adams - La Salle<br />4- Adams - Ogden<br />5- Ogden - Roosevelt<br />6- Ogden - W 30th<br />7- Ogden - Harlem / route 43<br />8- Harlem / 43 - 40th<br />9- Joliet - S La Grange<br />10- Joliet along I-55<br />---<br />11 - Main st. / veterans parkway, Bloomington<br />12- by Mc Lean IL<br />13- SE Vine / SW Arch, Atlanta IL<br />14 - Paul Bunyon, Atlanta IL<br />15 - 5th / Union st, Lincoln IL<br />16- Broadwell IL<br />17- Elm/Main, Williamsville IL<br />18- Farmersville IL<br />19- Hamel IL<br />20- Old Springfield/Center Grove, Edwardsville IL<br />---<br />21-Bel Air Dr Pontoon Beach‎ IL<br />22- McKinley Bridge into MO<br />23,24- Salisbury/14th St. Louis MO<br />25- Salisbury/ N. Florissant<br />26- Florissant/21st<br />27- Florissant/19th<br />28- 13th/Cass ave.<br />29- looking down 13th<br />30 - 13th buildings<br />31- Convention Plaza/looking down Tucker Blvd.<br />32- Tucker Blvd/Clark Ave<br />33- Gravois Ave/S Jefferson Ave, St Louis<br />---<br />34- Watson rd/Blackthorn, Websters Grove<br />35- Pacific, MO<br />36- Highway AT near Villa Ridge<br />37- Jesse James wax museum, S Service Rd E, Sullivan‎ MO<br />38- Cuba at Filmore st<br />39- Elm/Drury, Lebanon MO<br />40- after Conway<br />41- before Marshfield<br />---<br />42- Glenstone onto St. Louis, Springfield<br />43- St. Louis and National ave<br />44- St. Louis after Kimbrough ave<br />45- MO266 Plano ghost town<br />46- Carthage Drive-In<br />47- Main/Washington, Carterville<br />48- Main/5th, Joplin MO<br />49- Main/4th, Galena KS<br />50- Rainbow Bridge KS<br />51- Military ave/E 10th st, Baxter Springs KS<br />52- Main/Central Miami OK<br />53- Route 69 between E140 and E150rd OK<br />54 &amp; 56- 1st/Mulberry, Afton OK<br />---<br />57- 11th/Atlanta ave, Tulsa OK<br />58- 11th/Frankfort ave, Tulsa OK<br />59- Crossing Arkansas river, Tulsa<br />60- Main/7th, Bristow OK<br />61- Arcadia round barn<br />62- Bridge to Yukon<br />63- El Reno, OK<br />64- Main/State, Weatherdord OK<br />65- past Weatherford along I-44<br />66- 10th street, Clinton OK<br />---<br />67- 3rd/Madison, Elk City OK<br />68- bus under oil rig, Elk City OK<br />69- 4th/Maple, Sayer OK<br />70&amp;71- 5th/Main ave, Texola OK<br />72&amp;73- Grand ave/4th, Texola OK<br />74- 12th/Main, Shamrock TX<br />75- Leaning water tower, Groom TX<br />76- Front/Wilkerson, Groom TX<br />77- Bug Farm near Conway TX<br />78- 2161 past Conway, TX<br />79- Amarillo Blvd/Hill st, Amarillo TX<br />---<br />80- Between Vega and Adrian TX<br />81- Midpoint Cafe, Adrian TX<br />82- Glenrio, TX<br />83- Route 66 blvd/Chactaw st, Tucumcari NM<br />84- Cuervo NM<br />85- Route 66/11th, Santa Rosa NM<br />86- Dilla, Route 84 mile 78, NM<br />87- Los Montoyas, Route 84 mile 96 NM<br />88- Ribera, just before town<br />89- highway 89/Camino Reybal, Pecos NM<br />---<br />90- Cerrillos rd/Calle del Cielo, Santa Fe NM<br />91- Camino del Pueblo/ Calle del Norte, &nbsp;Bernalillo NM<br />---<br />92- Santa Fe ave/Hall st, Grants NM<br />93- NM-122/I-40, Thoreau NM<br />94- 66/Patton Dr, Gallup NM<br />95- Northern Frontage rd/Grants rd, Lupton AZ<br />96- abandoned section by Pinta Rd AZ<br />97- Navajo Blvd/ Hampshire st, Hallbrook AZ<br />98- 3rd/Pope st, Winslow AZ<br />99- Old bridge, Winona AZ<br />100- Route 66/Verde st, Flagstaff AZ<br />---<br />101- &nbsp;66/Main st, Seligman AZ<br />102- 66/Diamond Creek Rd, Peach Springs AZ<br />103- 66 past Truxton AZ<br />104- 66/Airway ave, Kingman AZ<br />105- 95/Shore dr, Golden Shores AZ<br />106- Broadway/Desnok st, Needles CA<br />107- National Trails Highway/Sunflower Springs Rd, Essex CA<br />108- National Trails Highway, Amboy CA<br />109- National Trails Highway before Ludlow CA<br />110- Main st/Cal ave, Barstow CA<br />---<br />111- National Trails Highway, Oro Grande CA<br />112- Cajon Blvd by I-15, San Bernardino National Forest CA<br />113- Foothill Blvd/Promenade Pl, Rancho Cucamonga CA<br />114- Foothill Blvd/ Tindalo rd, Arcadia CA<br />115&amp;116- W Subset Blvd/Crornado st, Los Angeles CA<br />117- Santa Monica Blvd/Wilton pl, West Hollywood CA<br />118- Lincoln/Olympic, Santa Monica CA<br />---</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Anton Orlov</span>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/10/found-in-america-route-66-tintype.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-6597456560914500139Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:47:00 +00002013-09-30T22:47:59.362-07:00Birthday update - Route 66, Bostick and Sullivan and more<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Today is my birthday!&nbsp; On the eve of this joyous day I'm finding myself at a truck stop in the middle of absolutely nowhere in New Mexico updating the blog...&nbsp; What else would I rather be doing you might ask?&nbsp; NOTHING! I love the fact that I'm on the road, but I must admit that I'm looking forward to this journey coming to conclusion in the near future.&nbsp; It's been almost 4 months since I left San Diego and I'm really looking forward to getting back, going through all the gear that I got on the road and cleaning it up, seeing my darkroom again, making some prints (and developing the 16 or so rolls of mystery 120 film shot in the 60s that I have picked up in Duluth) and for a couple of weeks sleeping my bed.&nbsp; I say only a couple of weeks because I already have plans for a short California trip at the end of October, but more about that when the time comes.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As some of you may know I chose to take Route 66 back home all the way from Chicago to Los Angeles.&nbsp; Route 66 has been called 'The Mother Road' because from 1920s until the magor freeway system was built up and completed it was the major route for travelers to take from the east to out west.&nbsp; It runs just over 2200 miles and millions of people have traveled down it's winding turns.&nbsp; I decided that at least once in my life I have to go on it from start to finish.&nbsp; Making lots of quick stops along the way to make tintypes and averaging about eleven plates a day (except for today when I only did 3 because I was visiting Bostick and Sullivan in Santa Fe and that visit took a lot longer than expected as I'll explain below) I have progressed about 150-200 miles per day.&nbsp; I have chosen not to copy the images I make via iPhone camera and to save them all for the time that I complete the trip - so far I have92 plates as of today and I expect the total number to be about 130 by the time I reach Santa Monica.&nbsp; Because of this decision this update will be rather sparse in photos, but here is a brief description of how the journey has progressed so far.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I started out from Chicago and was determined to make my first plate by the marker that says 'Route 66 Begin'.&nbsp; That sign happens to be located RIGHT downtown on Adams Ave by Michigan street.&nbsp; If any of you have ever been there you can visualize what a nightmare it would be to park a 35ft bus there in the middle of a weekday.&nbsp; For those who have not been there I'll just say that it took a lot of guts to park Gilli right in the 'buses only' lane with hazard lights on during rush hour with cars streaming all around.&nbsp; Luckily by now I have gotten my system down to where I can stop, make an exposure and get going in under 20 minutes, so no cops ever had the chance to question what a big yellow bus is doing blocking traffic, I even decided to do two plates from that perspective because the skyscrapers were just too picturesque and I knew what I won't encounter anything like that down the road.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The route quickly dips into suburbs and then into the rural country.&nbsp; Over the years it has been pretty much abandoned and overshadowed by major freeways that in a lot of parts have been built directly over it.&nbsp; Because of that the roads suggested by websites dedicated to traveling the entire length of Route 66 run directly parallel to a large highway, which is little fun to drive.&nbsp; Not only do you not go as fast, but those roads are poorly maintained and that's just not good for my faithful bus and her suspension.&nbsp; In light of that I decided to jump onto the freeways for some stretches and to get off at various towns where life may be expected to be seen.&nbsp; I also chose to take a very literal approach to my photography during this project.&nbsp; While various attractions visited by crowds of motor tourists throughout the decades lay just off the route I decided to focus on the ROAD itself.&nbsp; For that purpose every one of my images (other than maybe 4-5 so far out of the 92) include the road and all of them are oriented to the west since that's the direction that I'm traveling.&nbsp; This decision has definitely been adding an extra challenge to the photographic aspect of the trip.&nbsp; The road first goes pretty much directly south and then curves to the west in around Oklahoma.&nbsp; That meant that I had to shoot directly into the sun with back lit subjects and glare off the pavement filling the frame.&nbsp; It took a little adjustment to exposure and development, but I think I'm getting some rather decent results.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Route 66 was once traveled by heavy crowds and I met people along the way who still remember it being a busy throughway filled with traffic and picnicking families along it's sides.&nbsp; Now it's a pretty dismal scene with a lot of towns having gone completely abandoned and those that are still hanging on being in a terrible shape.&nbsp; Other towns, which had something else other than the road going for them, that are still bustling hubs of civilization are by now so modernized that they all look alike in accordance with the universal law of Americana - shopping malls, fast food joints, auto parts stores.... That makes for a nice contrast I think and I can't wait to lay out all the plates in a succession once I'm done and to see the whole road as it progresses.&nbsp; That's still about 4 days away at least as I have about 800 more miles to cover, so let's see how it goes.&nbsp; I do know that I'll be tempted to stop a lot more once I reach Arizona and the desert of California - I've been on certain sections of 66 there before and remember a lot of completely decayed buildings and I love shooting that kind of stuff, so I'll have to try to limit the amount of stops as I'm sure that this constant stopping and starting is not good for the engine...</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; To cut down on the time it takes me to wash all the plates I've been holding them in little 4x5 and 5x7 trays (for three of which I have to thank Lyosha Svinarski) until I get about 6-8 of them and then doing a batch wash.&nbsp; You can see the various grounds that I had encountered under the trays in these images.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T3-XfSkDfYo/UkpUdzVbL8I/AAAAAAAAEkA/VsLkmPu8lAY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Route66_Washing-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T3-XfSkDfYo/UkpUdzVbL8I/AAAAAAAAEkA/VsLkmPu8lAY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Route66_Washing-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1d8byGTF_SU/UkpUl06apWI/AAAAAAAAEkY/I6IB9Nzgncw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Route66_Washing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1d8byGTF_SU/UkpUl06apWI/AAAAAAAAEkY/I6IB9Nzgncw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Route66_Washing.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Here is one plate though for you to see as it's being washed.&nbsp; This is a shot of the Midpoint Cafe in Western Texas.&nbsp; As the name suggests it is situated right on the halfway point between Chicago and LA and, baing famous for just that, has managed to stay in business all these years.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qI0LYpDBFDU/UkpSBpkDgAI/AAAAAAAAEj0/iCKr8-CCn3o/s1600/Photo_Palace_Route66_Midpoint_Cafe_Tintype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qI0LYpDBFDU/UkpSBpkDgAI/AAAAAAAAEj0/iCKr8-CCn3o/s400/Photo_Palace_Route66_Midpoint_Cafe_Tintype.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Before I reached that though I went through Saint Louis Missouri where I was fortunate enough to meet a really cool person whom I'd like to give a mention here.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.kristendetec.com/" target="_blank">Kristen Detec</a> is another traveling photographer with a really cool mission.&nbsp; For 6 months she's traveling around US in a little pickup truck, visiting the areas worst hit by the Great Depression of 1930s and rephotographing them as they are now.&nbsp; She has a really great spirit and is actually using film for most of her photography, which I give her major kudos for.&nbsp; She was actually thinking of making the back of her truck into a darkroom, but sleeping quarters won over and I don't blame her for that at the lest.&nbsp; Kristen had me make a tintype of her for which I am very grateful as it provided another 25 gallons of fuel for thirsty Gilli.&nbsp; I look forward to seeing her work complete and all the great images that I'm certain she will come out with.&nbsp; Here she is in the back of her truck.&nbsp; Go Kristen!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iLoUvMkp2QU/UkpXQwh3zYI/AAAAAAAAEkk/P8ppoMVsZEo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Kristan_Detec.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iLoUvMkp2QU/UkpXQwh3zYI/AAAAAAAAEkk/P8ppoMVsZEo/s400/Photo_Palace_Kristan_Detec.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />&nbsp; Other than that I have met a lot of people who are still traveling Route 66.&nbsp; Some to reminisce about the trips they have done 50 years ago as young people and some doing it for the first time.&nbsp; All of them have been very kind and a lot of them have been invited on board to see a tintype being developed.&nbsp; The locals are great too - they all seem to be enchanted by Gilli and I get a lot of 'cool bus!' comments and thumbs up from cars driving by.&nbsp; Well the road goes on, but before I get back on the freeway and check out what a town of Grants NM looks like close to midnight (I really don't expect much, but I'll stop there and make my first plate there in the morning) I do want to tell you about the fun little visit that I started the my birthday with.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Santa Fe is home to one of the leading suppliers of photographic chemistry to photographers all over the world.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/" target="_blank">Bostick and Sullivan</a> has been a place that I have ordered directly from for many years and whose prodicts I have seen on many shelves of photo stores across the country, so when I realized that I'll be passing them I could not help but stop there and see the operations for myself.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OJYWgztcxKU/UkpZ0gvdLII/AAAAAAAAEk4/I-9-ymxarVk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bostick_and_Sullivan-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OJYWgztcxKU/UkpZ0gvdLII/AAAAAAAAEk4/I-9-ymxarVk/s400/Photo_Palace_Bostick_and_Sullivan-5.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As with Photographer's Formulary (you can read about my visit there in one of the entries from July) this is a family owned business and I got to meet all three generations of Sullivans.&nbsp; An unassuming building that you see above houses a bunch of raw chemistry that any alternative and traditional film photographer needs on daily basis, so I felt right at home there.&nbsp; B&amp;S are also the only ones to supply premixed chemistry for making wet plate images and I have been using their products since the very start of my tintype career.&nbsp; I really like the results that I'm getting and I really see no reason to start mixing my own collodion and varnish, though I may try it once I go to much larger plates to try to save on costs.&nbsp; They are also the only ones to make things like ziatype kits and precoated carbon tissue (of which I got a roll while I was there because I have been wanting to try my hand at carbon printing for a while now).&nbsp; Not only that, but here's some news and this may be the first time anyone is mentioning this!&nbsp; They are now working on bringing back OIL PRINTING!&nbsp; This technique is very similar to bromoil printing which uses regular black and white paper, but it is slightly different in that it uses enlarged negatives exposed via UV in contact with the dichromated tissue before applying the ink with either rollers or brushes.&nbsp; The results are very pictorial and soft and both of the techniques were introduces at the turn of 20th century as photography's answer to painting.&nbsp; The production is still in experimental stage and the first coated paper (a beautiful rough watercolor stock) may be available by special order early next year, so stay tuned - this is gonna be the return of a very cool technique and I bet a lot more people will be practicing it now that they don't have to coat their own gelatin!&nbsp; The test results saw were really impressive.&nbsp; Here is a quick snap of work in progress - two prints about 16x20in that were still drying on the work table (hence the glare on the bottom one).&nbsp; As you can see one can use any color of inks, you can even selectively add color or do transfers and by doing those from color separated negatives you can even get a very painterly full color image - possibilities are endless!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9qGBX-YERvY/UkpZ6AZu0-I/AAAAAAAAElQ/WK5JJKOyIts/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bostick_and_Sullivan-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9qGBX-YERvY/UkpZ6AZu0-I/AAAAAAAAElQ/WK5JJKOyIts/s400/Photo_Palace_Bostick_and_Sullivan-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Dana Sullivan is responsible for the wet plate portion of the business, so I was very interested to talk with him and see the darkroom.&nbsp; I got to admit that the darkroom was Spartan in its furnishings, but really did warm my heart is that it was pretty much entirely dedicated to wet plate process. That can actually be easily explained by the fact that alternative photography these days doesn't actually require a darkroom since most people chose to make large negatives on their inkjet printers and then all you need is a UV exposure unit (and I did see some really nice ones there making me want to come upon one larger than 11x14, which is what I have not).&nbsp; When I walked in Dana was in the middle of plunging a plate into a large bath of silver that he uses for his 12x20 work and so I decided to capture that moment for all of you to see.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j_5HT8unSxM/UkpZ6DCczFI/AAAAAAAAElU/Ql2OOpb7sIU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bostick_and_Sullivan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j_5HT8unSxM/UkpZ6DCczFI/AAAAAAAAElU/Ql2OOpb7sIU/s400/Photo_Palace_Bostick_and_Sullivan.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I don't know what he was planing to photograph, but before long I found an 8x10 camera with a Russian Industar lens (which warmed my heart even more) pointed at Gilli, which was parked right out front.&nbsp; Dana has just mixed up some new collodion and it took a couple of tries to get a perfect plate, but he persevered and in fact presented me with a great 8x10.&nbsp; Here you can see him developing one of the plates and the final result with yours truly behind the wheel.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ypHw0Nm2X7E/UkpZ-PVdu9I/AAAAAAAAElc/YiJaUeYyneM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Dana_Sullivan_Developing_Tintype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ypHw0Nm2X7E/UkpZ-PVdu9I/AAAAAAAAElc/YiJaUeYyneM/s400/Photo_Palace_Dana_Sullivan_Developing_Tintype.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PiY6whOUIq4/UkpgXTBXlbI/AAAAAAAAElw/qyBM30mQC5s/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Dana_Sullivan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PiY6whOUIq4/UkpgXTBXlbI/AAAAAAAAElw/qyBM30mQC5s/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Dana_Sullivan.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Well, it's almost midnight my birthday's almost gone.&nbsp; The continuous repetitive happily electronic music emulating from one of the nearby arcade machines has almost driven me insane and I'm sure it will be invading my dreams in the near future.&nbsp; I must get back on the road - the hills of western New Mexico slow Gilli down to below 40mph at times and who knows how long it will take me to reach the town of Grants.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Cheers to all!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/09/birthday-update-route-66-bostick-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-6509993920298093141Mon, 23 Sep 2013 02:48:00 +00002013-09-22T21:53:36.078-07:00On The Road Again! And What An Update...!<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Well, I thought I wouldn't post these big longwinded updates any more and try to post more often and in a more of a bite-size format...&nbsp; Unfortunately (or maybe quite fortunately) my schedule has been so packed that I barely got a chance to get online and those short times were filled with answering emails and keeping up with the schedule.&nbsp; So here it goes - another monster of an update!&nbsp; Grab a coffee, sit back and take a virtual ride along...</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i9YMeRqTraM/Uj-fU4LATmI/AAAAAAAAEhs/of5E3RmE0rY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Middletown_CT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Gilli's back and she has a new transmission!&nbsp; She is running great and now I do realize that the entire time I had her there was a roughness to the way the gears shifted, so this must have been coming all along.&nbsp; I attributed it to the fact that it's a big rig and thought it was normal for beasts of this size.&nbsp; Now that shifting is smooth as butter I can see that I have a lot to learn still. </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I would like to express my gratitude to all those who have helped me during the down time.&nbsp; Your moral, physical and financial support came at a crucial time and it will not be forgotten.&nbsp; Thank you!</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; So, to get back to adventures.&nbsp; Last I post ended with me being at a farm of my friend Justin Edelman's family in New Jersey.&nbsp; Justin is a great videographer and is a budding analogue photographer as well.&nbsp; His family gathered there for a mini-reunion and they were extremely generous to include me in the festivities.&nbsp; His mother is a talented painter working with large scale pastel chalks and his stepfather is..., well I'm not sure what his exact title is, but he explained what he does to me and it sounded almost as fascinating as painting.&nbsp; He goes in and fixes financial woes of troubled companies large and small by either streamlining them or laying out the facts before investors and owners to quit losing money and dissolve the enterprise.&nbsp; They are both very kind and smart with great sense of humor and spending time with them was a real treat.&nbsp; To top it off the farm is huge and heavily wooded, so there was plenty of hiking and nature time.&nbsp;&nbsp; A state park with a very picturesque lake was within hiking distance, so here is a shot of Justin's brother Fred on it's shore.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5C7-LUhKeg/Uj-jkVrEThI/AAAAAAAAEjo/rdpkKgZz5yk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Fred_On_The_Lake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5C7-LUhKeg/Uj-jkVrEThI/AAAAAAAAEjo/rdpkKgZz5yk/s400/Photo_Palace_Fred_On_The_Lake.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Knowing that Gilli won't be fixed for about a week I didn't want to impose my presence for the entire time and so I looked for a way to get to New York City for a while.&nbsp; As it happens my friend John from San Diego was actually working in Queens and even had an extra unoccupied hotel booked already.&nbsp; He gladly drove out to the farm and picked me up and we spent a few days in Big Apple.&nbsp; It was Labour Day weekend, so John didn't have work and so we got to venture into Manhattan and visited the 911 Memorial.&nbsp; It was strangely eerie to be standing by the two large pools that were positioned where the Twin Towers had once stood.&nbsp; Last time I was there it was 1994 and I went up on the observation deck of the north tower.&nbsp; I had just moved to the country less than a month ago, and looking down on what seemed like all of the creation I felt strangely American.&nbsp; Now nothing but deep pools with perpetually cascading streams of water fruitlessly filling them up were before me....</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NnEUE_C-VLw/Uj-f4Q13jKI/AAAAAAAAEjQ/RVspFiAL4Dg/s1600/Photo_Palace_World_Trade_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NnEUE_C-VLw/Uj-f4Q13jKI/AAAAAAAAEjQ/RVspFiAL4Dg/s400/Photo_Palace_World_Trade_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I had time to visit other friends while I was in NYC as well.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Maria, whom I've known since we were both little kids, is a daughter of my mom's coworker and dear friend Irina.&nbsp; Interesting thing is that Maria now has a son and he is 5.5 months old.&nbsp; When I was leaving San Diego on June 9th Maria happened to have been there visiting her mom and so I got to see little Valodia when he was 2.5 months for the first time.&nbsp; Seeing him at twice the age he had been and on the East Coast was a treat and so was meeting Maria's husband.&nbsp; As it happens Maria is a costume designer and is now going to fly out to California again to attend the Emmy Awards for which one of the shows she's is working on has been nominated (don't ask me which one - I am bad with names and on top of that have not watched TV in over a decade...).&nbsp; Good Luck Maria!</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Greg McMahon is a camera assistant in NYC and we've known each other over ten years now, so I had to stop by and see him too.&nbsp; Apparently his place was just a short walk from the hotel, so for once I didn't have to navigate the subway system (where either PA announcements had gotten A LOT clearer in the last 19 years, or I have learned enough English to start to barely understand them...&nbsp; still a long way to go though).&nbsp;&nbsp; He just returned from Burning Man festival and was happy to show me stereo slides from both there and this year's Montana Rainbow.&nbsp; Greg uses a great medium format camera that I recommended to him many years ago and is now getting quite excellent at stereographic photography.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Finally I also tracked down one of my college classmates Raymond Yeung.&nbsp; He does video work in NYC area and invited me over for a little BBQ get together, which was a lot of fun.&nbsp; He also was very kind to drive me over the shop where I picked up Gilli and we took a little drive to test out the chemistry and to make the following two images. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i9YMeRqTraM/Uj-fU4LATmI/AAAAAAAAEhs/of5E3RmE0rY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Middletown_CT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i9YMeRqTraM/Uj-fU4LATmI/AAAAAAAAEhs/of5E3RmE0rY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Middletown_CT.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9voNjLLXiaY/Uj-fciCYLpI/AAAAAAAAEh8/yuD5TQ_uEn8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Middletown_CT_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9voNjLLXiaY/Uj-fciCYLpI/AAAAAAAAEh8/yuD5TQ_uEn8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Middletown_CT_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Driving Gilli for a while I realized that indeed the entire time prior to repair she was shifting a bit rough, so the transmission woes were coming all along without my awareness of it.&nbsp; Now she was going from gear to gear smooth as butter.&nbsp; I went back to the farm of Justin’s folks and made a few tintypes there including a portrait of those family members that were still there after the reunion, which I left to them as a token of my appreciation for their hospitality and kindness.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kQbs25L13qY/Uj-fC3DpliI/AAAAAAAAEhA/X90uoAUOIWA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Farm_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kQbs25L13qY/Uj-fC3DpliI/AAAAAAAAEhA/X90uoAUOIWA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Farm_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zkV3BbVK9iM/Uj-fL2IDKmI/AAAAAAAAEhY/XE8PQT4-azo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Farm_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zkV3BbVK9iM/Uj-fL2IDKmI/AAAAAAAAEhY/XE8PQT4-azo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Farm_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-574L3rHTSLE/Uj-fLoa4FTI/AAAAAAAAEhU/KivRPvyRLJw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Farm_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-574L3rHTSLE/Uj-fLoa4FTI/AAAAAAAAEhU/KivRPvyRLJw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Farm_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lBbLTjsDowM/Uj-fKCjWGwI/AAAAAAAAEhI/sOUBBwNfut8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Farm_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lBbLTjsDowM/Uj-fKCjWGwI/AAAAAAAAEhI/sOUBBwNfut8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Farm_3.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; After spending the night at the farm I headed south to Washington D.C. where I had a few workshops booked.&nbsp; On the way there I had a chance to meet yet another wet plate photographer Brady Wilks and spent the night at his farm house.&nbsp; We went out for a shoot the next day and and here are the two resulting plates.&nbsp; Wish I had time to drive around a bit more, but I had to be on the way to the capitol. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mp2hhAgm0Q8/Uj-felzOD6I/AAAAAAAAEiE/3F7ErF2pLeQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Potomac_MD_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mp2hhAgm0Q8/Uj-felzOD6I/AAAAAAAAEiE/3F7ErF2pLeQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Potomac_MD_2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E8Qp3rMIX-Q/Uj-fdYHNxzI/AAAAAAAAEiI/z1M2znrJCbQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Potomac_MD_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E8Qp3rMIX-Q/Uj-fdYHNxzI/AAAAAAAAEiI/z1M2znrJCbQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Potomac_MD_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In D.C. I stayed at the house of my old Rainbow friend Allan – right on 16th street just a couple of miles from the White House.&nbsp; It was great to reconnect with him and we even went out to his orthodox synagogue for the celebration of the last day or Yom Kippur.&nbsp; Yes, I am a Russian Jew in case you are wondering, but I am not really a practicing one, so I had to follow along reading all the prayers in English to myself while Hebrew songs rang out from all around me.&nbsp; A slightly awkward experience, but I was very happy to be there and have a chance to recollect the difficult plight of my ancestors.&nbsp; As for the current policies of Israel...&nbsp; Well, that’s best left for a whole separate conversation…</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; September 6th, 7th and 8th we filled with ‘tintype experience’ workshops.&nbsp; Yuri Long was extremely kind and efficient to have set up this little marathon of classes and during the first two days a total of 16 people got to make their first plates under my supervision and guidance.&nbsp; I don’t know if it’s just because most of them had previous darkroom equipment or because people in Washington area are just smarter than average, but they all did a fantastic job pouring plates and followed the procedure to the T.&nbsp; Here they are marveling at their creations. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bH6xPnJnPKk/Uj-fBUcGtGI/AAAAAAAAEg0/MIEUSydDgvk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Experience_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bH6xPnJnPKk/Uj-fBUcGtGI/AAAAAAAAEg0/MIEUSydDgvk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Experience_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LTy0_HpzhrI/Uj-fBx_8C_I/AAAAAAAAEg4/0roswKrfix8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Experience_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LTy0_HpzhrI/Uj-fBx_8C_I/AAAAAAAAEg4/0roswKrfix8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Experience_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While I was in D.C. I noticed that the iconic Washington Monument was having repairs done on it (apparently to the damage caused by a relatively recent and rather rare earthquake), so I decided to try to get a couple of tintypes made of that scene.&nbsp; I was determined to shoot right at sunset when lights on the scaffolding were turned on to illuminate the monument.&nbsp; As you can imagine parking and traffic in downtown D.C. is pretty insane.&nbsp; I was extremely lucky though.&nbsp; I drove up to the perfect spot with a great vantage point just minutes after parking was allowed on that stretch of the street, so I got an absolutely perfect spot and was able to shoot right from the window of the bus, which gave me a great elevated perspective.&nbsp; Here is a quick iPhone image taken during one of the following exposures.&nbsp; You can see how perfectly we care parked :)</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OEcLWofyW1I/Uj-f4H7ze1I/AAAAAAAAEjM/ZBqWt6-mP8E/s1600/Photo_Palace_Washington_Monument_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OEcLWofyW1I/Uj-f4H7ze1I/AAAAAAAAEjM/ZBqWt6-mP8E/s400/Photo_Palace_Washington_Monument_2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Daylight was fading rapidly and exposures ranged from 1:30 to 3min.&nbsp; It was really cool to see the lights switched on right as I was doing the shoot and I really like the way the series of three plates turned out.&nbsp; You can't really tell in this image below, but the first shot clearly has just one bank of lights on, the second one has half of them on and in the last one all lights are on - that makes a really neat sequence where the more lights are on the brighter the scene appears. After making that series I could not resist pulling a couple more plates - why not, I was already there... </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FBYPA0ag-SQ/Uj-fwskAnhI/AAAAAAAAEi4/pyjC0AoGHrU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Monument_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FBYPA0ag-SQ/Uj-fwskAnhI/AAAAAAAAEi4/pyjC0AoGHrU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Monument_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a7nVTPEH9ow/Uj-fwMZHzAI/AAAAAAAAEi0/jT5QfVA3Gyw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Monument_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a7nVTPEH9ow/Uj-fwMZHzAI/AAAAAAAAEi0/jT5QfVA3Gyw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Monument_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next day, on Tuesday, I had an appearance scheduled in Maryland at Anne Arundel Community College.&nbsp; My friend Vera, who teaches there now,&nbsp; had arranged this and I was happy to provide bus tours, little tintype experience and a Magic Lantern Show.&nbsp; Here is a shot of the bus parked on campus.&nbsp; I had a good stream of people coming throughout the day and everyone seemed to enjoy the history of photography display. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o9tIs4fKCgs/Uj-bE73sUKI/AAAAAAAAEW4/zdLxgn0PYks/s1600/Photo_Palace_AACC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o9tIs4fKCgs/Uj-bE73sUKI/AAAAAAAAEW4/zdLxgn0PYks/s400/Photo_Palace_AACC.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; From there it was on to Washington Grove - a small town in Maryland where a Facebook friend had asked me to come by and make a commissioned portrait of him on his back porch.&nbsp; Allan Janus works as a conservator with the Smithsonian and used to do wet plate images back in late 70s and early 80s.&nbsp; His place was filled with curious images and photo artifacts and we had a good time conversing into the night.&nbsp; Among other things this wonderful Afghani rug caught my eye.&nbsp; I heard about these traditional rugs that incorporated military items, but have never seen one in person.&nbsp; Seeing one in front of me really made me think of the hardships that a culture must experience to be including such things as tanks, bombs and rifles into their traditional art...&nbsp; I hope peace comes to that region at some point in the future.... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EVQt0w1thDM/Uj-bJmx6ggI/AAAAAAAAEXI/iCP11moueSw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Allan_Janus_Rug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EVQt0w1thDM/Uj-bJmx6ggI/AAAAAAAAEXI/iCP11moueSw/s400/Photo_Palace_Allan_Janus_Rug.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning a neighbor also decided to have a tintype of her house made.&nbsp; Here are the resulting plates. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mE8o5toHFIg/Uj-fv-1yEAI/AAAAAAAAEiw/MC7SdWHZNzE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Grove_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mE8o5toHFIg/Uj-fv-1yEAI/AAAAAAAAEiw/MC7SdWHZNzE/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Grove_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6em1o03g2tw/Uj-foKUI9QI/AAAAAAAAEiY/5rnb9_QJLKM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Grove_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6em1o03g2tw/Uj-foKUI9QI/AAAAAAAAEiY/5rnb9_QJLKM/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Grove_2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While I was there I could not help myself to do a couple more images since I already had my 8x10 with a 5x7 back out and ready to go.&nbsp; </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fFQzC9i33So/Uj-fmkmfL1I/AAAAAAAAEiQ/dDkYRNCeGjI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Grove_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fFQzC9i33So/Uj-fmkmfL1I/AAAAAAAAEiQ/dDkYRNCeGjI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Grove_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JTzNusMOZh0/Uj-fpC9A57I/AAAAAAAAEig/03_fICK3q9g/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Grove_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JTzNusMOZh0/Uj-fpC9A57I/AAAAAAAAEig/03_fICK3q9g/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Washington_Grove_3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; That was Wednesday morning and after that I thought I had a little break.&nbsp; A while back there was talk of doing the workshop in Troy at Photo Center.&nbsp; I have not heard from it's director Nicholas Argyros in a little while, so I assumed that there wasn't enough interest and took my sweet time making my way north toward Buffalo.&nbsp; I stopped to make plates in Gettysburg and then again in Enola PA. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4RFkWXgy-wQ/Uj-e2FEhtlI/AAAAAAAAEgc/_a1AAZI_A_I/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Enola_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4RFkWXgy-wQ/Uj-e2FEhtlI/AAAAAAAAEgc/_a1AAZI_A_I/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Enola_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvrOCQzC1WE/Uj-e43XOE-I/AAAAAAAAEgo/WVAIu8C442Q/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Enola_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvrOCQzC1WE/Uj-e43XOE-I/AAAAAAAAEgo/WVAIu8C442Q/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Enola_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dXS4z-mUSgI/Uj-fTujhnNI/AAAAAAAAEhg/BO_RGRV8raI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Gettysburg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dXS4z-mUSgI/Uj-fTujhnNI/AAAAAAAAEhg/BO_RGRV8raI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Gettysburg.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xy5GmMsIMS8/Uj-fV6tU6hI/AAAAAAAAEhw/l1N0sERHE0M/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Gettysburg_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xy5GmMsIMS8/Uj-fV6tU6hI/AAAAAAAAEhw/l1N0sERHE0M/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Gettysburg_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It was 7pm and I was consuming some dinner when I decided to give Nicholas a call just to confirm that we are a no-go for the workshops.&nbsp; To my surprise he said that there were indeed 4 people ready to go and that we were on for tomorrow at noon!&nbsp; That meant that I had to hop in the bus and get on the road as soon as possible.&nbsp; Troy was more than 300 miles away from where I was and with Gilli not going any faster than 55 mph on a flat and down to 30 on an uphill the trip took 7.5 hours!&nbsp; It was all worth it though.&nbsp; Not only did we have a great workshop, but Nicholas and Susan Mayers, one of the students, actually bought one plate each from my collection, which made my day even better.&nbsp; The only bummer was that a very heavy rainstorm set in right in the middle of the workshop and we were forced to do a couple of plate in the bus with the shutter open and popping multiple flashes off a DSLR camera.&nbsp; Incidentally that actually works pretty well - it takes about 20 close-range hits from one of those little pop-up flashes to make a very decent wet plate exposure.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After the workshop I had a pleasure of visiting Fulton Street Gallery where Susan had an exhibit of her giant cyanotype prints.&nbsp; I got to say that these were the largest ones I have ever seen and they were also done very well.&nbsp; I know they won't translate well in your screen, but believe me - in person they are VERY impressive.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Et6KRLiSASA/Uj-d1NmhJjI/AAAAAAAAEeM/X00rCIf8pD8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Susan_Mayer_Cyanotype_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Et6KRLiSASA/Uj-d1NmhJjI/AAAAAAAAEeM/X00rCIf8pD8/s400/Photo_Palace_Susan_Mayer_Cyanotype_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Next was another marathon drive from Troy to Buffalo.&nbsp; This is normally a 4.5 hr drive in a car, but with the bus and some hills it took a good 7 hours - way longer than I really would like to drive on a single stretch, but I wanted to make some images in the morning before heading over to a gallery reception at night.&nbsp; Pulling in at about 2am I parked by the same grain elevators that I shot last time I was in town.&nbsp; This time for some reason the lights on that stretch of the street were on, so it was nowhere near as dark in the bus and I didn't sleep so well.&nbsp; On the other hand I woke up early enough to have good light on my subjects and made the following plates.&nbsp;</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wbNeSUswe3A/Uj-eO-oNy3I/AAAAAAAAEfI/YEgcMvsrOSk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wbNeSUswe3A/Uj-eO-oNy3I/AAAAAAAAEfI/YEgcMvsrOSk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uj1YdTsD290/Uj-eJWNnlyI/AAAAAAAAEe8/7de-DLV4Jr0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Uj1YdTsD290/Uj-eJWNnlyI/AAAAAAAAEe8/7de-DLV4Jr0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nKbhz2yimlM/Uj-eY2BFbvI/AAAAAAAAEfg/UIM0aHg6gFE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Usually I'm not a fan of crazy artifacts from some stuff going awry with the collodion process, but I really like what happened in that last plate. (Are you falling asleep yet?&nbsp; Maybe it's time for another coffee break?).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the evening I pulled in front of Hallwalls Gallery in downtown where there was a great reception for the opening for the show by Clifton Childree.&nbsp; His exhibit was a perfect match for the nostalgic feel of The Photo Palace Bus and I think the pairing was great.&nbsp; He collected thousands of rolls of player piano scores and made a rather incredible installation that filled two or three rooms.&nbsp; Clifton also works in motion picture medium and actually uses FILM (major kudos!), so in one room there were 8mm projectors pointed at white walls and viewers were encouraged to come up to the machines and crank the film through to project the clips.&nbsp; It was a wonderfully tactile experience.&nbsp; All the rooms were fairly dark, so pardon the poor iPhone snapshots of the scene...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Next day I had another appearance at one of my favorite photo stores - Delaware Camera.&nbsp; I was planning on doing tintype portraits and Eric Jensen was very kind in promoting the event.&nbsp; There were about 6 people who had their portraits taken and here are a couple of those plates, copied before varnishing and giving them to their respective owners.&nbsp; I got to say I had a blast shooting that dog image below - it's a challenge enough to shoot humans with wet plate, but when you are working with a pretty hyper puppy dog.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NZb1mHCEkrM/Uj-eu0QboQI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/qZTlds-BLRo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Portrait-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NZb1mHCEkrM/Uj-eu0QboQI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/qZTlds-BLRo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Portrait-3.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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On Sunday morning I was determined to shoot the iconic Electric Building, which towers over downtown Buffalo and has wonderful art deco detail in light stone.&nbsp; Thankfully I met a great guy and a talented artist by the name of Scotty Bye who lives right across the street from the Electric Building and Scotty said that we could get on the roof of his place to have a great perspective.&nbsp; I was super excited to do this, so I got up relatively early and made my way to Scotty's loft.&nbsp; By the way - rent in Buffalo is amazing!&nbsp; Scotty said that there were only 6 people living in the entire building and each one of them had a 2000 square feet space with rent under $800!&nbsp; When inside I was confronted with a barrage of visual stimulation including pieces of Scotty's sculptures, old motorcycle parts, painting and so on.&nbsp; Scotty makes large outdoor installations and I highly recommend visiting his site.&nbsp; Here he is holding a promo piece for one of his current pieces with a part of his old sculpture behind him.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yp0auN0ECzI/Uj-dHntWB9I/AAAAAAAAEcQ/qZcBEjYv1ZE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Scotty_Bye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yp0auN0ECzI/Uj-dHntWB9I/AAAAAAAAEcQ/qZcBEjYv1ZE/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Scotty_Bye.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Getting on the roof above the sixth floor was easy, but it was quite a feat going up and down and down and up with wet plates in an old slow industrial elevator.&nbsp; To save us some time I decided to cut the number of trips in half by sensitizing the plates first and only then setting up the camera on the roof once we got there.&nbsp; This was the first time I did that and I think it worked pretty well - because it was not a hot day with moderate humidity plates stayed pretty wet.&nbsp; These are the plates I came out with from that shoot.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HeJGEvYe7QA/Uj-eVEQJzFI/AAAAAAAAEfU/g3lko3Vv7bw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HeJGEvYe7QA/Uj-eVEQJzFI/AAAAAAAAEfU/g3lko3Vv7bw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-5.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OiwOuUGIBz8/Uj-eDXXtQMI/AAAAAAAAEew/qFUz59y4a_8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-2-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OiwOuUGIBz8/Uj-eDXXtQMI/AAAAAAAAEew/qFUz59y4a_8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-2-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fpfGkKeKBMM/Uj-eKEYRonI/AAAAAAAAEfA/oOR2tztu6DQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-3-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fpfGkKeKBMM/Uj-eKEYRonI/AAAAAAAAEfA/oOR2tztu6DQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_-3-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Starting at noon there was a workshop and Magic Lantern Show set up in Locust Street Art Gallery.&nbsp; That space is really cool - an artistic mecca for Buffalo where they teach painting, ceramict, animation and photography.&nbsp; It's a large three story tall building with every room functionally set up for creativity to flow freely.&nbsp; Here are a couple of pictures of some of the spaces there.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mT95SZDlAnM/Uj-c4zZoo1I/AAAAAAAAEbw/Z9-dCFZMrAU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Locusts_Gallery-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mT95SZDlAnM/Uj-c4zZoo1I/AAAAAAAAEbw/Z9-dCFZMrAU/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Locusts_Gallery-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iLJUqS4nEVw/Uj-c9Sn3cQI/AAAAAAAAEcA/_cV2ohh73rI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Locusts_Gallery-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iLJUqS4nEVw/Uj-c9Sn3cQI/AAAAAAAAEcA/_cV2ohh73rI/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Locusts_Gallery-5.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-abj6KethOlk/Uj-czqI0xFI/AAAAAAAAEbk/7mfguPKHxs8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Locusts_Gallery-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-abj6KethOlk/Uj-czqI0xFI/AAAAAAAAEbk/7mfguPKHxs8/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Locusts_Gallery-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hGFEc0Oj3HU/Uj-c9etyO_I/AAAAAAAAEb8/QkoaZRfEq8g/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Locusts_Gallery-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hGFEc0Oj3HU/Uj-c9etyO_I/AAAAAAAAEb8/QkoaZRfEq8g/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Visit2_Locusts_Gallery-6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Two people showed up for the workshop out of four expected, but we had a good time nonetheless.&nbsp; Here is a shot of the staff of Locust Street Art Gallery that I did as a demo and the two plates that workshop participants made afterward.&nbsp; Notice the cropped person on the right - I had already set the camera up and the plate was in the holder when someone decided to be added to the shot... This was shot with a 90mm and I thought I might still have them in the frame, but apparently I got most of him...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r5YJplgIxf0/Uj-egixlC8I/AAAAAAAAEfw/ZGKMPUvJMaA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Locust_Gallery-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r5YJplgIxf0/Uj-egixlC8I/AAAAAAAAEfw/ZGKMPUvJMaA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Locust_Gallery-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5tVoUlgkvbo/Uj-egQwp8CI/AAAAAAAAEfs/YqJtPk2mXFw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Locust_Gallery-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5tVoUlgkvbo/Uj-egQwp8CI/AAAAAAAAEfs/YqJtPk2mXFw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Locust_Gallery-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AE_dWfMwUDw/Uj-eq7ePkWI/AAAAAAAAEgE/Mev0uLFp0eY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Locust_Gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AE_dWfMwUDw/Uj-eq7ePkWI/AAAAAAAAEgE/Mev0uLFp0eY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Locust_Gallery.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I thought the building right next to the gallery was very iconically middle-American, so I decided to shoot it before wrapping and starting the wash.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K7Tt2IJzUuI/Uj-ekdLD6aI/AAAAAAAAEf4/uh-0ABANdsw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Locust_Gallery-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K7Tt2IJzUuI/Uj-ekdLD6aI/AAAAAAAAEf4/uh-0ABANdsw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_Visit2_Locust_Gallery-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The lantern show went well as usual.&nbsp; I'm perfecting my presentation still, but I don't think I had too many slip-ups and upside down plates, so that's a success in my eyes.&nbsp; We had about 20 people attend and for the size of the room it was perfect.&nbsp; After the show a few of us went out to dinner.&nbsp; Rob McElroy, in whose parking lot I spent my Buffalo nights, mentioned that he might want to use me as the subject for his first 8x10 daguerreotype portrait taken with flash power.&nbsp; I might have mentioned before that by now his lighting setup was up to 60.000 watts of power and so I was both hesitant to sit in front of that amount of lights and extremely honored and excited at that opportunity.&nbsp; By the time we were done with dinner and a tour of Charlie's place, a photographer who lives above Rob, it was about 2am.&nbsp; Still, when I said that I was up for it Rob said he was as well and Eric wanted to see the process as well, so we headed down to Rob's and started on the whole process of making an 8x10 daguerreotype.&nbsp; This time the process went by a lot faster than during my last year's Buffalo visit and within an hour I found myself surrounded by a hugely intimidating lighting setup with 16 power packs clicking and buzzing in the seeming darkness beyond the reflectors.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tht4r2HCbog/Uj-cFrAY4QI/AAAAAAAAEZg/RGbRUi7rMls/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Tht4r2HCbog/Uj-cFrAY4QI/AAAAAAAAEZg/RGbRUi7rMls/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p7eIIeHDF7k/Uj-cV6fSLCI/AAAAAAAAEaQ/0klqYFtnPN4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p7eIIeHDF7k/Uj-cV6fSLCI/AAAAAAAAEaQ/0klqYFtnPN4/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-7.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f4GQhIWGUPE/Uj-cYKxdR-I/AAAAAAAAEaY/V-6KTRS2xG8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f4GQhIWGUPE/Uj-cYKxdR-I/AAAAAAAAEaY/V-6KTRS2xG8/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Rob is a real perfectionist and so he was trying to not only make an excellent plate as far as the technique of daguerreotype process, but also was planning to have perfect lighting AND use one of the lenses by Howard Beach (the adventures in whose house you can read about in my earlier post).&nbsp; Wanting to perfect the light he wanted to have it bounce off the white reflector cards rather than having all the bare bulbs blasting in my face and having my features in sharp harshness.&nbsp; Rob asked me how I would like to be photographed and having just done a Magic Lantern show I decided to have the lantern in the shot with me and to have the image look like it was being taken during a show and the light was coming from a lit up screen.&nbsp; We set up the lights, did a bit of focusing (well, quite a bit - did I mention that Rob is a perfectionist?).&nbsp; The plate was inserted and the modeling lights were switched off...&nbsp; Then Rob counted down and I braced myself for the tidal wave of light that was about to hit me...&nbsp; Let me tell you - NOTHING can prepare one for that much light entering a fully dilated pupil!&nbsp; NOTHING!!!&nbsp; The entire world went green - a bright fluorescent type of green that glows like northern lights.&nbsp; It made no difference if I had my eyes opened or closed... I thought I was completely blind, but in about ten seconds the green faded to purple and then blue and in a couple of minutes I could almost see again.&nbsp; Hooray!&nbsp; I stumbled down into the darkroom and saw what I could make out of the processing.&nbsp; Even having 60.000 watts was not enough to give a proper amount of light for the 0.01 ISO of daguerreotype emulsion...&nbsp; Now I say this because indeed the plate was a bit dark for a 'normal' portrait.&nbsp; Rob was definitely disappointed.&nbsp; I on the other hand truly liked the result because it truly captured the atmosphere that I was hoping the image would portray - a darkened room with the glow of the screen illuminating the projectionist's face.&nbsp; I hope Rob won't be too mad at me for putting this quick iPhone copy of an image he considers to be sub-par on here.&nbsp; I REALLY LOVE IT ROB!!! Don't wipe it!&nbsp; (I mean, yes - when you compare it to the flawless bright plates you see below it you can see that it's dark, but again - the atmosphere of a slide show is perfectly captured!)</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7EeRoHYu_o/Uj-b2cQG8bI/AAAAAAAAEZA/W9scdGnfPQw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7EeRoHYu_o/Uj-b2cQG8bI/AAAAAAAAEZA/W9scdGnfPQw/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-17.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; By the time all as done it was close to 4:30 in the morning and I crashed out on Rob's couch.&nbsp; I had to get up pretty early in the morning because by 10:30 I had to be in Nichols High School - one of the very best high schools in the entire country.&nbsp; There I had a class of art students come through and view the bus and the history of photography display.&nbsp; They loved the bus and I think I inspired some youngsters to pick up a Fuli Instax camera by taking a shot with one and letting them watch the image come up.&nbsp; That Fuji Instax was a generous gift from Eric Jensen and I am eternally grateful for it - I will indeed put it to good use!&nbsp; Nichols School was actually amazing with a clean darkroom and plenty of lively and smart students.&nbsp; Here is a shot of their darkroom and one of my favorite art pieces that sat in the classroom.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EBAkKFMdllo/Uj-bUHqJaII/AAAAAAAAEXo/E8oYxu_T-qA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Nichols_School-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EBAkKFMdllo/Uj-bUHqJaII/AAAAAAAAEXo/E8oYxu_T-qA/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Nichols_School-5.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h8moSMlmEsY/Uj-bbmkCI7I/AAAAAAAAEX0/7UpDinCETDw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Nichols_School-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h8moSMlmEsY/Uj-bbmkCI7I/AAAAAAAAEX0/7UpDinCETDw/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Nichols_School-6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I was totally going to leave for Chicago (I had to be there on the next day and it's an 11 hour drive), but Rob texted me and said that he was up for another try with the 8x10 daguerreotype portrait and so I gladly went back to his studio.&nbsp; Rob said that he had two plates all fumed and ready to go and so it wasn't going to take more than an hour or so...&nbsp; We messed with the setup and tried to get more light into the camera again and again and before we knew 5.5 hours flew by!&nbsp; We did do the two shots, but again my skin tones were too dark for Rob's liking.&nbsp; Here is the second plate where a hair light was added, which revealed a nice separation from the background and added a great reflection onto the Lantern.&nbsp; Again - I really hope it's OK with Rob for me to post this image - it's really below his professional standard, but AGAIN - I REALLY LIKE IT!&nbsp; C'mon - look at it - doesn't it look like it's taken during a show in a dark room with the projector glowing back at me?&nbsp; By the way, this time I asked Rob to keep modeling lights on and so I didn't have quite a shock to my eyes when the flash was released.&nbsp; Still, 60.000 watts all at once is an intense and a bit disorienting experience...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MffjzTd7gCM/Uj-cJngqrlI/AAAAAAAAEZs/OYY0mrAtddE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MffjzTd7gCM/Uj-cJngqrlI/AAAAAAAAEZs/OYY0mrAtddE/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Rob_McElroy_Dagguerreotype-20.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Anyhow, I left Buffalo when the light was fading and started driving west toward Chicago.&nbsp; After driving until I could drive no longer I stopped and slept in a service area off the 90 throughway.&nbsp; Woke up a bit late and started driving again.&nbsp; Long stretches of highway do a bad ting to my body, but I had one very important thing to look forward to and so I was determined to make it to Chicago by the evening.&nbsp; What was that important thing, you may ask.&nbsp; Well, one of my Facebook friends, Joel Ferguson, along with other folks had been working for Dennis Manarchy who has designed and found sponsorship for the world's largest mobile camera and on Wednesday there was to be an opening ceremony in downtown Chicago for it.&nbsp; I was anxious to see this marvelous beast for which I remember seeing an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign a while back.&nbsp; Now Dennis had found private sponsors and companies that donated a bunch of custom work to make his dream of 30 years a reality.&nbsp; 'Butterflies and Buffalo' (the name of the camera) is capable of taking 6x4.5ft NEGATIVES.&nbsp;&nbsp; I applaud Dennis for working not only at that size, but also doing it with analog means.&nbsp; When I got to the garage where the final touches were being put on the giant camera I was truly impressed.&nbsp; Seeing this on a computer screen can do no justice to it, but here you go - world's largest mobile camera still in the garage and the prototype of it, which sits upstairs in Dennis' house with Joel in front of it for scale.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OrTGnJYDC0E/Uj-dSfgjDwI/AAAAAAAAEc0/-3UUQKZF5lQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Chicago-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OrTGnJYDC0E/Uj-dSfgjDwI/AAAAAAAAEc0/-3UUQKZF5lQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Chicago-3.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1IXRlVYUDsk/Uj-dRermYzI/AAAAAAAAEcs/mASKxENWZpM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Chicago-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1IXRlVYUDsk/Uj-dRermYzI/AAAAAAAAEcs/mASKxENWZpM/s400/Photo_Palace_Chicago-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Incredible, right?&nbsp; What is even more incredible was the fact that Joel was apparently supposed to guard the camera that night after it was wheeled out to downtown and somehow I got sucked into that mission and so we were to spend the night sleeping INSIDE a camera amid skyscrapers of the Windy City!&nbsp;&nbsp; There were a few points of confusion and so the camera didn't get delivered to the location until late at night, but here it is being pulled into place.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t4K6AOcHbi0/Uj-dcfZo4CI/AAAAAAAAEdI/iGvAqkMZUb8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Chicago-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t4K6AOcHbi0/Uj-dcfZo4CI/AAAAAAAAEdI/iGvAqkMZUb8/s400/Photo_Palace_Chicago-6.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; After we watched it being positioned under the giant prints that Dennis had strung on the building by it we were left with a pack of 12 beers and strict orders to not let anything happen to that camera overnight...&nbsp; It was late and there was nobody around.&nbsp; Aside from Joel and me a lovely young lady by the name of Celina volunteered to stay to keep us company.&nbsp; The three of us quickly went through the beer, walked around a bit to stretch the limbs and then returned to the camera thinking of sleeping.&nbsp; One thing that nobody apparently thought to leave with us was any kind of bedding - no mattress, no blankets or pillows...&nbsp; Also, the camera had been freshly painted, so we could not even sleep in it - the smell was too much.&nbsp; I was the oldest in the group by far and I insisted that some kind of softness was to be brought to the location.&nbsp; That meant quickly going back to Joel's place and grabbing a twin-size mattress and some nominal covers.&nbsp; It was quite a site - us carrying bedding in the middle of the night in a business district.&nbsp; I don't think it was as much of a sight though as us waking up at about 7:30.&nbsp; The sun up and a crowd of work-bound office employees rushing by the three figures rising from a thin mattress and emerging from under ratty blankets in their undies.&nbsp; What a sight!&nbsp; On the other hand - the camera was safe and sound and so we felt good enough to pack up our makeshift nest, push-start Joel's truck (oh yeah, his starter was out, so every time there was a need to go anywhere some pushing was required), and go about our day.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The opening was to be held from 5 to 7pm and Joel and I were planning on doing tintypes there.&nbsp; We arrived to the spot at about 4 and boldly parked Gilli right in the middle of rush hour traffic in a zone clearly marked as 'No Parking - Tow Zone'.&nbsp; I'd like to see them try towing me!&nbsp; It appears that cops in Chicago have better things to do than to worry about illegally parked vehicles and so nobody bothered me in the next 4 hours.&nbsp; Unfortunately as soon as people started arriving and we did our first test plate the rain set in and only got worse as the ceremony went on...&nbsp; This is pretty much what it looked like - small groups of wealthy people under umbrellas huddling in close-knit bundles and shmoozing their hearts out.&nbsp; No place or time for tintypes....&nbsp; Still, I had a good time - I could just not believe that this thing is real and will someday make images!&nbsp; </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yRed79kibJA/Uj-ddONE4DI/AAAAAAAAEdQ/ZcyELBa43f0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Chicago-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yRed79kibJA/Uj-ddONE4DI/AAAAAAAAEdQ/ZcyELBa43f0/s320/Photo_Palace_Chicago-8.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Dennis still needs to find more sponsors for the first road trip, but eventually he wants to go around the country and complete a series of portraits of various small enclaves of American subcultures.&nbsp; Other than Native Americans I am not sure who he is planning on shooting, but he had indeed done a few shots of them with the prototype and so a small group of Native American drummers showed up at the opening and did a very soulful performance.&nbsp; I didn't get any shots of that as I was too enthralled in the moment - the surrealism of hearing chants and the steady beat of the thunder drum amid skyscrapers in the falling rain was too perfect.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; That night I slept in the bus in front of Dennis' house.&nbsp; It was a warm night and I was excited to be heading on Route 66 the following morning. Here I am going to make an unusual for me move and skip a part of the tale about me making the first tintypes of that return journey.&nbsp; I would like to leave the Route 66 story for one continuum that will be revealed in the next few posts.&nbsp; I would however like tell you about a little detour I made after doing the first stretch of that historic road.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; An online friend of mine, Lyosha Svinarsky runs a Museum of Photography in Urbana IL and he invited me to come over and do a Magic Lantern show, some workshops and tintype portraits and indeed just to meet and have a good time.&nbsp; I'm always glad to meet photographers and even more so when they come from my native Russia, so I hopped off Route 66 and drove a bit out the way to Urbana.&nbsp; I spent a few nights at Lyosha's place, got to know his lovely wife and dog, went out and got a taste a very popular beer here - Dragons Blood (amazing brew if you are into dark, nutty, strong ales!) and had a great time in general.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The lantern show was enjoyed by a good 15 or so people including some kids that waited until about the end of the show to turn on their mobile games (so I think I'm getting better at keeping people's attentions).&nbsp; One interesting thing that happened during the Lantern Show - my lantern almost caught fire!&nbsp; When I was in Buffalo Rob asked me if I had a spare bulb for when mine goes out.&nbsp; I said that no and I have no idea where to get a huge bayonet-mount bulb that's 95 year old.&nbsp; I should have known - Rob pulled out a box from his garage a in it were TWO bulbs that fit my lantern!&nbsp; One of them was the recommended 500 watts and one was a bit more powerful 750.&nbsp; During this show I decided to test out that 750 and in the middle of the performance I noticed a stream of smoke coming from inside the lantern.&nbsp; With the words 'ladies and gentlemen, we need to interrupt this event as we may be in danger of catching ablaze' I stopped the show and the lights went up.&nbsp; Inside the lantern I found the wooden base, which holds prints in the event it is to be used as an overhead projector, smoldering at full speed.&nbsp; I extracted the extremely hot plate and poured water on it.&nbsp; Now the lantern has some serious field&nbsp; character to it!&nbsp; I think I can still use that bulb (the light was indeed quite a bit brighter) if I don't have that wooden insert in...&nbsp; Still, unless it's absolutely necessary I'll stick with the recommended 500 watt ones for now.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next day I was downtown Urbana - a couple of people came by for a tintype experience and I also made a portrait of another couple in front of the bus.&nbsp; Here I am in front of Lyosha's place with faithful Gilli behind me.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5irsfSyd7kU/Uj-gABUSWMI/AAAAAAAAEjg/KT1ilappwfA/s1600/Photo_Palace_and_me.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5irsfSyd7kU/Uj-gABUSWMI/AAAAAAAAEjg/KT1ilappwfA/s400/Photo_Palace_and_me.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now I am finishing this blog post while sitting in a wonderful creative space in Bloomington IL called Come Together Studios owned by Matt Erickson.&nbsp; Matt invited me over to give him a chance to make a tintype of his own and so I was glad to come by and present him this opportunity, especially because Bloomington was on my way back to Route 66.&nbsp; Come Together Studios is a long-time dream of Matt's and he is super excited to see it come to fruition.&nbsp; A couple of years ago he purchased a 16.000 square foot building with a rich history stretching all the way back to 1850s and now is slowly but surely transforming it into a space for artist studios and performances of all kinds.&nbsp; They have spaces here printmaking, sculpture, painting and soon to come are capabilities of ceramics and bronze casting.&nbsp; I hope there will also be a darkroom here someday.&nbsp; A total of 8 gallery spaces, artists living quarters and so on and so forth... Here are a couple of images from it - I could have shot more as every room is filled with great art, but I'll spare you as I'm sure by now you want to go to sleep (even if you are reading this in the middle of the day...)</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llHTscwSkuA/Uj-ditX8ooI/AAAAAAAAEdY/Qo7u7dnCj0A/s1600/Photo_Palace_Come_Together_Studios-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-llHTscwSkuA/Uj-ditX8ooI/AAAAAAAAEdY/Qo7u7dnCj0A/s400/Photo_Palace_Come_Together_Studios-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_FTuDrYJojM/Uj-dqoTc14I/AAAAAAAAEd0/tvPK0oBc4OY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Come_Together_Studios-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_FTuDrYJojM/Uj-dqoTc14I/AAAAAAAAEd0/tvPK0oBc4OY/s400/Photo_Palace_Come_Together_Studios-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XhMyH--wPLM/Uj-dp2gNVUI/AAAAAAAAEd4/dz6CC0FN1Y8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Come_Together_Studios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XhMyH--wPLM/Uj-dp2gNVUI/AAAAAAAAEd4/dz6CC0FN1Y8/s400/Photo_Palace_Come_Together_Studios.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;A few emails were sent out and so quite a few of Matt's friends showed up to see the bus.&nbsp; Among them was a local tintype photographer Rashod Taylor and here he is holding one of his 8x10 plates.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-diSDFhUUz94/Uj-dvkx7ddI/AAAAAAAAEeA/OcjpMt4om7g/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rashod_Taylor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-diSDFhUUz94/Uj-dvkx7ddI/AAAAAAAAEeA/OcjpMt4om7g/s400/Photo_Palace_Rashod_Taylor.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It always pleases me to sell my work.&nbsp; Not only do I see what people connect with and see my work gain a life of its own in a different part of the country, but of course I also get some more funds for diesel.&nbsp; I sold 4 8x10 silver prints to those who visited the bus and I am pleased to say that at this point I am literally $200 away from this trip being financially solvent!&nbsp; WOOO-HOOO!!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I will stop this novel of an update on this up note and will soon get back to start the update about my travels along Route 66.&nbsp; Let me just say that the beginning of it was intensely wonderful and it resulted in some great plates being made.&nbsp; More about that later though - now you can go about your day and be productive knowing that you have just finished one of the longest posts I have made or will hopefully ever make.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton </span>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/09/on-road-again-and-what-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-4359803761744932375Sat, 31 Aug 2013 02:35:00 +00002013-08-30T19:35:07.509-07:00On Hold...&nbsp; Well, it has finally happened - something went wrong with Gilli-the-35-year-old-Gillig... More about that later though, let's keep this post in a timeline order.<br /><br />&nbsp; After leaving Portland Maine I headed south and went pretty fast.&nbsp; I was headed to see Matt Wronski again as he had come upon some interesting equipment that I wanted to check out for myself.&nbsp; On my there I went down the coast of Massachusetts and stopped to make a few images.&nbsp; First stop was in North Waymouth after I drove over a bridge, saw a WWII warship parked under it and thought it would make a neat shot.&nbsp; While parked there I was approached by a local older gentleman who informed me that a while back the scene I was shooting was an active ship yard and his father worked there for 30 years and he himself worked there for seven.&nbsp; Then it closed down and thousands of people lost their jobs.&nbsp; Now it serves as a ferry port and the ship that I just pictured was a museum of sorts and for Halloween it was decorated for kids.&nbsp; There was also lots of construction going on under the bridge so I decided to do a shot of that too - looks like a perfectly industrial American river...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XmOMFx_UXU8/UiEax0bYmSI/AAAAAAAAEC8/0F0F8S88k0A/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_North_Waymouth_MA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XmOMFx_UXU8/UiEax0bYmSI/AAAAAAAAEC8/0F0F8S88k0A/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_North_Waymouth_MA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4DhE9XEgG6w/UiEaxAIVLXI/AAAAAAAAEC0/_zhRrMZy5WI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_North_Waymouth_MA_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4DhE9XEgG6w/UiEaxAIVLXI/AAAAAAAAEC0/_zhRrMZy5WI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_North_Waymouth_MA_2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />&nbsp; Next stop was at Hingham Harbor.&nbsp; It looked very picturesque and I couldn't help myself to stop and make a couple of plates.&nbsp; While washing the following images a lovely lady by the name of Laura rolled by in her small SUV and asked what I was doing.&nbsp; Apparently she had a small business a while back (I didn't ask what kind), but it failed.&nbsp; While doing some soul searching she came up with the idea of starting a motivational program called <a href="http://www.rarawithlaura.com/" target="_blank">Ra Ra with Laura</a> that was all about 'Less blah blah and more Ra Ra!'.&nbsp; She said she came to this spot often to communicate with her inner self and with God and we had a wonderfully loose conversation about spirituality and channeling energy.&nbsp; I was totally enamored with her deep Bostonian accent and she seemed impressed with my project.&nbsp; While driving away she said that "all my dreams will come true in the next 30 days" - that's a tall order I must say... Does that mean I should wait for a phone call from <a href="http://www.npr.org/people/2100593/terry-gross" target="_blank">Terry Gross</a>?<br />&nbsp; I got to say that the pouring job on the second shot here is probably the worst one I have ever done so far, but I kinda like it and at the very least I should put the image on here to illustrate that not all of plates turn out all neat and even and clean...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SvkwxToyF3E/UiEesE__0nI/AAAAAAAAEDM/Zmp1-kC2FoQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_HIngham_Harbor_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SvkwxToyF3E/UiEesE__0nI/AAAAAAAAEDM/Zmp1-kC2FoQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_HIngham_Harbor_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WMqGFwQ_6EE/UiEer4kT2uI/AAAAAAAAEDI/7rrkGQfUVjA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_HIngham_Harbor_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WMqGFwQ_6EE/UiEer4kT2uI/AAAAAAAAEDI/7rrkGQfUVjA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_HIngham_Harbor_2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>&nbsp; Next on the map was Plymouth.&nbsp; I'm sure that most of my American readers know this, but for those unfamiliar with the history of settlement of this continent I will say that Plymouth was the original site of settlement by pilgrims in 1600s and there is a famous rock there that is inscribed with the date 1620 on it.&nbsp; I thought it would be rather interesting to make a tintype of that rock (even though the date would obviously be reversed).&nbsp; When I drove up to the Pilgrim Park where the rock was supposedly located I found droves of tourists and no possible location to park within many blocks of the place.&nbsp; Mind you that this photo project is a combination of perfect occurrence of "Inspiration, Composition, Lighting and Parking".&nbsp; The first one strikes randomly, I can manipulate the second and deal with the third - the last aspect is entirely out of my hands...&nbsp; Still I was not leaving this historic town without making an image of some sort.&nbsp; So here I present to you my Plymouth Rock!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ziN0XUjH1xU/UiEjfOeBAlI/AAAAAAAAEFA/9LcAM8QZTvo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Plymouth_Rock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ziN0XUjH1xU/UiEjfOeBAlI/AAAAAAAAEFA/9LcAM8QZTvo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Plymouth_Rock.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; I made it to Matt's place just in time - we still had a bit of light left and I made tintype portrait of him, his lovely wife and son in their back yard for them to keep.&nbsp; The light was indeed going fast and so the 13 second exposure was barely enough, in retrospect 20 wold have been much better.&nbsp; I don't have the copy of the image, so you'll have to use your imagination and picture two adults seated with the 14 year old son standing over them - the figures seem to be floating in complete darkness because the surrounding greenery was in the shade and so almost nothing from it recorded in the plate.&nbsp; Looks kinda neat actually.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; As I mentioned Matt has recently acquired a little camera collection and among them there were a few Magic Lantern artifacts - a few lanterns and a ton of old slides.&nbsp; One of the lanterns is a 'side by side biunial' design and actually came with a pair of really sweet little Petzval lenses - not projection lenses, but actually ones meant to make images with.&nbsp; Matt is thinking of making his money back by selling some of the cameras and keeping just a few of the more interesting pieces.&nbsp; It took quite a little talk to convince him not to separate the lantern from the lenses.&nbsp; In fact it was not until the next morning, after he placed a call to our mutual friend Luther in Ventura CA, that Matt said that indeed he's not going to split up the lenses from the lantern.&nbsp; I was very relieved to hear that - there are few things that pain me more to see as a equipment-lover than seeing parts of equipment that have been together for over a century split up without a hope of ever finding their counterparts again...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Matt was not looking forward to dealing with the plethora of the dirty, separated slides that came with the collection and so agreed to sell me the whole lot along with a very odd looking lantern for a reasonable price.&nbsp; Most of the slides are indeed of no particular interest and I'll have my hands full with putting them online to make my own money back when I come back to San Diego, but some of them will go very well with a new show that I'm developing and so I was happy.&nbsp; Plus the lantern is a really odd piece - it looks like it's suppose to project an image on the ceiling - but what?&nbsp; And is is missing a lens on top?&nbsp; I'll have to fire it up and see...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cbOWdjgQC5o/UiEjY8DmwMI/AAAAAAAAEE8/dNRK8v7uB-8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Odd_Lantern.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cbOWdjgQC5o/UiEjY8DmwMI/AAAAAAAAEE8/dNRK8v7uB-8/s400/Photo_Palace_Odd_Lantern.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is that odd Magic Lantern </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-89_8pV8W_ws/UiEjPEuDy7I/AAAAAAAAEEk/2L5rlDlZTho/s1600/Photo_Palace_Lantern_Slide_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-89_8pV8W_ws/UiEjPEuDy7I/AAAAAAAAEEk/2L5rlDlZTho/s400/Photo_Palace_Lantern_Slide_2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A set of children's stories and some pretty funny cartoons </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ra3VPA91TtE/UiEjKe34UTI/AAAAAAAAEEc/OjyrW5Qw5Ys/s1600/Photo_Palace_Lantern_Slide_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ra3VPA91TtE/UiEjKe34UTI/AAAAAAAAEEc/OjyrW5Qw5Ys/s400/Photo_Palace_Lantern_Slide_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A shadow-drawing set was among the slides as well </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; After leaving Matt's place in the morning I headed to Connecticut to pay another visit to Terry Borton - the man in charge of <a href="http://www.magiclanternshows.com/introducing.htm" target="_blank">American Magic Lantern Theater</a> in hopes that he will help me sort through my most recent find.&nbsp; He and his lovely wife Barbara were glad to see me again and Terry did indeed help me out a lot by taking a brief look at the slides.&nbsp; He didn't know what the lantern was exactly intended for though, so the search for it's function continues.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; I wasn't there long and left in early afternoon to be on my way to my New Jersey.&nbsp; There I was looking forward to joining my friend's Justin's family for a nice relaxing weekend in the country.&nbsp; That's when things went wrong...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; While driving west on 84 I noticed Gilli slipping from 4th gear into 3rd while going full speed (her full speed being 55).&nbsp; It happened once... I thought it was a fluke.&nbsp; It happened again...&nbsp; I thought 'this is strange'...&nbsp; and then is happened permanently and all of a sudden I was forced to go 40.&nbsp; I knew something was awry and pule off the freeway at the next exit.&nbsp; Never having experienced any real problems with the bus I didn't know what to do...&nbsp; I sat at the parking lot adjacent to the freeway and prayed that this was just a glitch and that my baby was all right.&nbsp; After smoking a cigarette and saying a quick prayer I got back on the freeway and this time it was evident that there is something majorly wrong here - Gilli wouldn't even go into third gear, forcing me to go about 30mi/hr to the next exit, where I got off again and weighed my options.&nbsp; It was nearly 8pm on the east coast, so all the mechanics shops were closed.&nbsp; Luckily I have a sticker in the darkroom from San Diego's Freightliner dealership and repair - I go to them when I'm home for routine maintenance and they are very kind and professional.&nbsp; I called them up and described my symptoms.&nbsp; They said that I'm in luck because they have an Allison transmission repair shop right next door to them.&nbsp; This is when I told them that I'm in Connecticut.&nbsp; They said "oh!"...&nbsp; After some searching they came up with a few places that were not too far away from me and suggested that I call the after-hours numbers.&nbsp; I called the local Freightliner shop and after describing the symptoms again was told that it was indeed the transmission that was acting up and that I should get myself to a shop in Middletown ASAP.&nbsp; According to the GPS that shop was 37 miles away, but that was via the freeway and there was no way I was going back out on there and creating a hazard by driving 15 miles per hour in the dusk...&nbsp; I decided to navigate the surface streets and take it at whatever speed Gilli was willing to go.&nbsp; That speed apparently was about 12 miles per hour.&nbsp; I coasted downhill in neutral and on those short stretches got up to 20 or 30, but most of the time I was crawling with my emergency blinkers on and pulling over for every car that caught up to me.&nbsp; It took me over 3.5 hours to get to the shop and by that time it was nearly midnight and so I fell asleep in their parking lot.&nbsp; I dreamed of mechanics messing up the walls of the bus and not being able to find the transmission...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; In the morning I was woken up by the arriving workers and directed to the service yard.&nbsp; The folks who worked there were very nice and they were also highly recommended by not only the two places that I called before, but also by the customers that I met there.&nbsp; Bob, the guy who handled my case, was apparently with the company for over 30 years and it took him no time at all to figure out that the whole transmission was shot.&nbsp; With a sunken heart I asked him how long will it take to fix and how much should I prepare myself to spend.&nbsp; He said that there is a chance that it could be done by Friday, but I should not hope to walk out of there without spending less than $4.000...&nbsp; I was stunned, but proceeded to ask for them to get a real quote as soon as possible as I was really looking forward to the weekend in the country with Justin and his family.&nbsp; The estimate didn't take long to come in.&nbsp; Bob was spot on....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IFULALmkrUQ/UiEjizLZr-I/AAAAAAAAEFQ/2wX9s2NBqvw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Trnasmission_Estimate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IFULALmkrUQ/UiEjizLZr-I/AAAAAAAAEFQ/2wX9s2NBqvw/s400/Photo_Palace_Trnasmission_Estimate.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; I had really no other option but to bite the bullet and authorize the thing.&nbsp; For this price I would get a whole new transmission and I would still be able to proceed to do all the things that I was scheduled to do next week.&nbsp; Looking at the whole thing in a more positive light I realized that this could have been worse.&nbsp; I could have broken down next Thursday and would have had to cancel a whole lot of workshops and other activities.&nbsp; Or I could have broken down somewhere in the middle of the country, hundreds of miles away from the nearest big rig repair shop and would have had to pay thousands in towing costs (or take a hundred hours to crawl there through some desert).&nbsp; So all in all this situation was not the worst thing that could have occurred.&nbsp; In reality this is just going to push me further to work harder and sell more work, set up my Etsy shop, start setting up more events, get more organized and so on - in the end it's just money and I am sure that it will be found somewhere.&nbsp; My commitment to this venture is complete and so I need to be prepared to do whatever need be to keep it going.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; As it happens the one and only customer that was present at the shop at the time I was there was a very nice big rig driver who parked his large purple 18-wheeler next to me around noon.&nbsp; He had some power problems and was waiting for an estimate himself.&nbsp; When the quote did come in he was shocked to find out that he is going to be out a whole $5K to fix his bread-winner.&nbsp; He didn't have that kind of a cushion of cash and so decided to go slowly towards his home and to work for other people for a while while saving money to fix his truck.&nbsp; I asked him which way exactly was he going and was delighted to hear that he was going to pass within a few miles of the farm that I was going to and was willing to give me a ride.&nbsp; he said that he was still pondering what to do and was waiting on some details, so in the meantime I asked him if I could make a portrait of him and so here is Dickson the truck driver.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yd2hbbX-SfU/UiEjYYioc_I/AAAAAAAAEE4/z4VOYWqiSUY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Dickson_Truck_Driver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yd2hbbX-SfU/UiEjYYioc_I/AAAAAAAAEE4/z4VOYWqiSUY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Dickson_Truck_Driver.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; While I was processing the image Bob came back with some rather discouraging news - apparently there was no way that the job was going to be done before the weekend, and this being the Labor Day weekend in all likeliness Gilli would only be ready for the road next Wednesday...&nbsp; I had no other choice but to nod my head in acceptance and hope that it will indeed be done by then.&nbsp; Before leaving the shop I was able to talk the guys into pulling Gilli into the garage and not leaving her there in the sun.&nbsp; I explained that I have some chemistry that can not get hot and that in general this was not a 'rig' to me, but a life partner and so they were kind enough to open up a bay and let me park her indoors for the entire duration of the repairs.&nbsp; Here is the shot of Gilli's current surroundings.&nbsp; I hope she is safe and sound there...&nbsp; From what I hear the transmission is already out...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vjVpfz_qXGE/UiEjCshC9TI/AAAAAAAAEEM/koR3ZeChufs/s1600/Photo_Palace_Gilli_At_Bay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vjVpfz_qXGE/UiEjCshC9TI/AAAAAAAAEEM/koR3ZeChufs/s400/Photo_Palace_Gilli_At_Bay.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; The 120 miles that Dickson took me went by quick over the conversations about life, religion and many other topics. Dickson is a great guy who has a wife and 4 boys, the oldest of which just moved out to go to college last week and the youngest is 5.&nbsp; his wife stays home to take care of the kids, so he is the only bread-winner in the family and he was really concerned about what he was going to do now that his truck is going to be out of commission for a long time.&nbsp; On the other hand he was not stressed - he believed wholeheartedly that the Lord will take care of him and provide a way out.&nbsp; I admire that kind of conviction and pray that he got home safe and that everything will work out for him and his family.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; At a gas station in Port Jervis in New Jersey, where Dickson dropped me off, I was picked up by Justin's stepfather Hans, who took me to a beautiful 300 acre farm where I felt instantly accepted as part of their large wonderful family.&nbsp; I am currently staying in a guest house where I have 4 rooms to myself, family members keep arriving all the time and there may be as many as 17 people at the height of the gathering.&nbsp; Justin, myself and two of the kids took a really beautiful hike through the woods earlier today and so I am rather tired, but feel very good about having finished this blog.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; By the way, while I was typing this up the blog received it's 400.000th view!&nbsp; YAY!&nbsp; I'm glad people are finding out about Gilli, following our adventures and I hope that some of them will be inspired by it.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Good Night!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o_R7m-yc_Hw/UiEi5_5H_hI/AAAAAAAAED0/TPXaev5rDGA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Farm_At_NIght.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o_R7m-yc_Hw/UiEi5_5H_hI/AAAAAAAAED0/TPXaev5rDGA/s400/Photo_Palace_Farm_At_NIght.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anton Orlov</div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/08/on-hold.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-3896882534825265987Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:59:00 +00002013-08-26T09:06:46.967-07:00Tintypes, more Maine and 100 year old negatives from Boston found<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I figure I should write another update before leaving the state of Maine later today.&nbsp; I spent more time here than intended, but don't regret a second of it - I have come to love this place and hope to come back every opportunity that I get.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As you may remember, the previous update was written from the town of Belfast.&nbsp; After posting it I spent a quiet and uneventful night there and woke up rather early to make these two plates.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FTVL3HluLtQ/UhtWXaAjZiI/AAAAAAAAD-M/xqXgBGCdCTM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Belfast_ME_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FTVL3HluLtQ/UhtWXaAjZiI/AAAAAAAAD-M/xqXgBGCdCTM/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Belfast_ME_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZaLiqdOauOo/UhtWX5YMFTI/AAAAAAAAD-U/myDaHju-G7c/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Belfast_ME_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZaLiqdOauOo/UhtWX5YMFTI/AAAAAAAAD-U/myDaHju-G7c/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Belfast_ME_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After that I finally got myself to concentrate on something I should have done a bit ago and went to the post office to mail off postcards and prints that I owed to the supporters of the Indigogo funding campaign.&nbsp; I am hugely grateful to all those who contributed as those funds came in really handy and provided diesel for the first 3.000 miles of this trip (by now I've done about 6.500 by the way).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Shortly after that was done I got an email informing me that the trip has been written up by a popular blog called <a href="http://fstoppers.com/?s=anton+orlov" target="_blank">Ftoppers in a really nice little article</a> for which I answered some questions via email earlier.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Driving out of Belfast to head farther north I stopped just before a town of Frankfort in their public boat launch site to make the two images below.&nbsp; While I was making the second plate a really nice couple stopped by and said they had to turn around after seeing the bus and having read the article in Bangor Daily News.&nbsp; I was happy to give them a tour and let them watch the creation of a tintype. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-coG4H43_gqQ/UhtgAfkel1I/AAAAAAAAD-k/RXYrAA79W8w/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Frankfort_ME_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-coG4H43_gqQ/UhtgAfkel1I/AAAAAAAAD-k/RXYrAA79W8w/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Frankfort_ME_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k62IJnyxbMU/UhtgBM1EL3I/AAAAAAAAD-s/fBglZY73EV8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Frankfort_ME_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k62IJnyxbMU/UhtgBM1EL3I/AAAAAAAAD-s/fBglZY73EV8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Frankfort_ME_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After checking my email again I saw that a site called <a href="http://www.filmsnotdead.com/2013/08/21/my-film-affair-anton-orlov/" target="_blank">Film's Not Dead posted an article I wrote</a> for them.&nbsp; A little while back I was asked to be a featured writer for them and I thought that a perfect way to start was write about my personal history of involvement with analog photography and my love for it.&nbsp; I think it turned out semi-coherent - you be the judge.&nbsp; I look forward to writing more for that site in the near future (as soon as I can get some time off the road and can concentrate on writing).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next on the map was a town of Bangor and I got there too late to make any more exposures, so I went out to explore the town.&nbsp; When I came back there was a lovely note stuck under the windshield wiper of the bus.&nbsp; In it a woman by the name of Meg was saying that she read about the bus in Bangor Daily and expressed interest in learning more about it.&nbsp; I went to sleep with a feeling that I should definitely call her in the morning.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Upon waking I needed to go to the post office again as there were still more things to mail.&nbsp; I called Meg and made plans for her to stop by the bus during lunch time.&nbsp; Meanwhile I sent off the rest of what I had to mail and made the following tintypes right by the post office.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-toWBv7vuw1E/UhtjGZ8eDaI/AAAAAAAAD-4/Q1PTBgDp-1E/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-toWBv7vuw1E/UhtjGZ8eDaI/AAAAAAAAD-4/Q1PTBgDp-1E/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rijNULJYQtI/UhtjG83MxNI/AAAAAAAAD_A/q4tgGWUAC3M/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rijNULJYQtI/UhtjG83MxNI/AAAAAAAAD_A/q4tgGWUAC3M/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Meg showed up soon afterward and brought a traditional Maine snack called 'whoopie-pie'&nbsp; - an incredibly sugary treat consisting of a fluffy chocolaty dough with cream filling in the middle.&nbsp; I was very grateful for that and devoured as much of it as my body could handle.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ino-76Ru7uA/UhtjuoQNHsI/AAAAAAAAD_I/DD82qYicJPY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Whoopie_PIe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ino-76Ru7uA/UhtjuoQNHsI/AAAAAAAAD_I/DD82qYicJPY/s400/Photo_Palace_Whoopie_PIe.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a> </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Meg stuck me an intriguingly interesting person right off the bat.&nbsp; She is a beautiful, well-spoken, world-traveling lady and we made plans for me to actually spend the night parked by her place in Orono.&nbsp; I was to meet her there a bit later in the day as she had to go back to work and so I had time around Bangor before then to make these two plates happen.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bvQCTewkGcY/UhtkpOMGiLI/AAAAAAAAD_c/kq3aDEsEBY4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bvQCTewkGcY/UhtkpOMGiLI/AAAAAAAAD_c/kq3aDEsEBY4/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BrCQDopms8E/UhtkomQiz7I/AAAAAAAAD_U/VzwS6jTzgZ8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BrCQDopms8E/UhtkomQiz7I/AAAAAAAAD_U/VzwS6jTzgZ8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Later that evening I met up with Meg and we went out to a tiny little place right in Orono where a good band was playing some string instruments.&nbsp; Here you can see Meg as she jumped in to sing some vocals in one of the songs.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sSlRbkZdryc/UhtlEtnJhGI/AAAAAAAAD_k/OGmVFQPqwRw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Orono_Band_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sSlRbkZdryc/UhtlEtnJhGI/AAAAAAAAD_k/OGmVFQPqwRw/s400/Photo_Palace_Orono_Band_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The party went into the street afterward and we had a great time singing along to Bob Dylan and many other favorites.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning meg actually had to move to a new place, so I let her do that without any further distractions and headed back to Bangor after we made it a plan that she would come there in the evening for a dinner with me.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In Bangor I again drove about town captured the following images.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LE_xLG-C1KU/UhtmFmbqdoI/AAAAAAAAD_w/AG58m2dbfHk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LE_xLG-C1KU/UhtmFmbqdoI/AAAAAAAAD_w/AG58m2dbfHk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_5.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q8itkwte9Y0/UhtmHPrI87I/AAAAAAAAEAA/AHYVjuCGrT8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q8itkwte9Y0/UhtmHPrI87I/AAAAAAAAEAA/AHYVjuCGrT8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vzE5-knosCY/UhtmFk3qqrI/AAAAAAAAD_0/yjlpXFGwMmM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vzE5-knosCY/UhtmFk3qqrI/AAAAAAAAD_0/yjlpXFGwMmM/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_7.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wfO2O6875dw/UhtmJKig6dI/AAAAAAAAEAI/pM5TbB1NoxQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wfO2O6875dw/UhtmJKig6dI/AAAAAAAAEAI/pM5TbB1NoxQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bangor_ME_8.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Megan (as is her full name) came by as the evening was descending upon the town and we went out for a really nice Thai meal and had a great time chatting.&nbsp; Apparently we were in Nepal in 2007 at the exact same time!&nbsp; What a small cool world it is!&nbsp; Meg expressed interest in buying of my tintypes and I truly enjoyed her company and energy, so I asked if she would meet me in morning so I could make a tintype portrait of her.&nbsp;&nbsp; She agreed and the next morning we held a little portrait session - I gave her one plate and kept this one.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D8U1ltygKfw/UhtnP2ERk9I/AAAAAAAAEAU/9Nly_3H_4s0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Megan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D8U1ltygKfw/UhtnP2ERk9I/AAAAAAAAEAU/9Nly_3H_4s0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Megan.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I must admit that I have not met anyone this intriguing to my heart in a long long time, so I plan to see her again as soon as humanly possible.&nbsp; She is actually setting off to go travel in Laos in a little bit, so I wish her the very best on her trip and will keep all my fingers crossed in hopes of safe return and our speedy reunion thereafter.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After we said our goodbyes I finally started to move back in the southern direction.&nbsp; This truly marked the half-way point in this years cross-country adventure and gave me new inspiration and energy.&nbsp; I was on my way back to Portland.&nbsp; On the way stopped in towns of Newport and Augusta to make two plates at each location.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zndaDmMcmkM/Uhtop-LrhvI/AAAAAAAAEAo/NSYM1nSuYPA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Newport_ME_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zndaDmMcmkM/Uhtop-LrhvI/AAAAAAAAEAo/NSYM1nSuYPA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Newport_ME_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qv6-Xc41y1E/Uhtoos-T5bI/AAAAAAAAEAg/z87enJbhBjA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_NEwport_ME_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qv6-Xc41y1E/Uhtoos-T5bI/AAAAAAAAEAg/z87enJbhBjA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_NEwport_ME_2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I got to Portland as the sun was setting, which provided for some interesting contrast.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zDI-R0x0rfw/Uhtpym4rXzI/AAAAAAAAEBA/H5ETo2QMKaE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_P0rtland_ME_202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zDI-R0x0rfw/Uhtpym4rXzI/AAAAAAAAEBA/H5ETo2QMKaE/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_P0rtland_ME_202.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wUnBUx1_1mk/Uhtpy8QefNI/AAAAAAAAEBI/NIgLDvXnyoA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME_201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wUnBUx1_1mk/Uhtpy8QefNI/AAAAAAAAEBI/NIgLDvXnyoA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME_201.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The following morning I parked right on Congress street (the main street in Portland and waited for a couple of visitors to stop by.&nbsp; I was expecting three people - Nathan (who contacted me after learning of my adventure and wanted to see the bus), Yuri (who happens to be on vaction here now, but normally lives in D.C. area and had set up quite a wonderful little tintype experience series there <br />for September) and Eric (who emailed me earlier saying that he had some glass plate negatives taken around Boston area that he wanted to get my opinion on).&nbsp; Of course all three of them showed up at the exact same time and we had a nice little hangout.&nbsp; Nathan was intrigued by the bus and enjoyed the short tour.&nbsp; Yuri was kind enough to bring me some 4x5 sleeves and a negative storage box - I will use that to store the plates and hope they survive the journey back to San Diego.&nbsp; Yuri was also one of the supporters of my indigogo campaign and he was one the two people who chose the level of contribution the reward for which was a tintype, so I gave him one of the anniversary shots of Gilli that you can see in the previous post.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It was Eric who really had something special though.&nbsp;&nbsp; Apparently Eric's family bought a house in 1955 and have not poked around the attic for many decades.&nbsp; About 15 years ago though they went up there and did discover two boxes filled with over 100 5x7 glass negatives in original sleeves with captions indicating that they were done in the greater Boston area.&nbsp; Eric said that the original sleeves were falling apart in his hands as the condition in the attic was nowhere near archival. Knowing that he was holding a small piece of history Eric was careful and attentive enough to place the negatives into new envelopes, transfer the captions and numbers on them and also to cut out the label from the original envelopes and keep them with the respective negatives as well.&nbsp; The name of the photographer is still being investigated, but in the images there are a lot of shots of local parks, streets and individual houses.&nbsp; From a few of the plates Eric was able to approximate the time period when they were made as being 1910s.&nbsp; The quality of images is very high, but I must say that being in an attic for somewhere between 60 and 80 years did wreak havoc on their condition.&nbsp; Some have emulsion damage and most all of them have traces of or full paper masks that the original photographer GLUED onto the EMULSION side in order to mask the negative for printing!&nbsp; I don't think that was a standard practice of professionals...&nbsp; When I saw them though I could not help but thinking that having them in my possession would open up a perfect opportunity for a short re-photographing project and that in-turn would serve as practice for the large project of the same nature that I am planning to do in 2017 using the Magic Lantern slides from Russia, a post about which is currently enjoying world-wide popularity.&nbsp; After a long talk Eric did decide to sell me the negatives with the condition that I would send him some prints of them when I get home and get to my AZO paper.&nbsp; Now I need to: contact some people with questions about conserving the plates and removing the dreaded paper from them,&nbsp; get in touch with Boston area historians to find out where the locations are and save up some money for a trip there involving a 5x7 camera.&nbsp; Here are 5 of the images - copied VERY poorly - the originals are very sharp (as one would expect from a 5x7 glass plate of course), but these were copied with no tripod and with a cheap point and shoot Samsung digital.&nbsp; This low quality copying was done intentionally in order to save the uniqueness of real experience of viewing the images for later when, after the re-photographing project is complete, they will be either shown in a gallery or published in a book (or both if I'm lucky).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qqm79yuQl54/UhtwS25s15I/AAAAAAAAEBY/IGRSX_j_IRE/s1600/Boston_Neg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This was all yesterday and in the evening I had plans to meet Katie.&nbsp; She met me online via Troy R. Bennett and was one of his models.&nbsp;&nbsp; After adding me as a friend she posted a double exposure of a man in a bottle and was wondering if someone knew how to do that and would create an image of her inside of a bottle given to her by her grandfather.&nbsp; Knowing that I have that capability I responded and we made plans for me to spend the night at the apartment of her and her boyfriend.&nbsp; We met about 4 and immediately started working on the shoot.&nbsp; I must admit that other than the rarher random method of using multiple exposures for my<a href="http://orlovphoto.com/galleries/double-vision/" target="_blank"> Double Vision seies</a> I have only done multiple camera work in studio before and those studios were well stocked with lights, backgrounds and all the props needed for a creation of a clean professional image.&nbsp; This time I had o work outdoors and my only backdrop was to be a red sheet about 5x6.5 ft.&nbsp; Needless to say that is not really enough to pose a fill-body portrait on AND to also have a still-life ready to go as well....&nbsp; We did one test plate and then came up with the following two.&nbsp; The first one I left with Katie and kept the second.&nbsp; I think we did OK considering the circumstances.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uV3EaziFbeI/Uht3VJF9k8I/AAAAAAAAECM/Q5Ghzz4ajSM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Katie_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uV3EaziFbeI/Uht3VJF9k8I/AAAAAAAAECM/Q5Ghzz4ajSM/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Katie_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wz7LoxW-9D4/Uht3UxAHyDI/AAAAAAAAECI/PY0kHgULc48/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Katie_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wz7LoxW-9D4/Uht3UxAHyDI/AAAAAAAAECI/PY0kHgULc48/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Katie_2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Katie and her boyfriend Ryan were a really great company for the evening and Katie did make some absolutely splendid pasta, for which I was very grateful.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While varnishing the plate I was to leave with her another very interesting occurrence took place.&nbsp; A fellow by the name of David Gaines stopped by the bus and said that he remembered the bus from the time I was in Portland last year and that he had a nice print of Gilli that I may be interested in seeing.&nbsp; I can't say no to such an offer and David went two houses down to his home to get it.&nbsp; I must say that I have seen a lot of pictures of Gilli done all over the place, but it's rare that one actually truly impresses me and it's even more rare to see an actual hard copy print.&nbsp; When David came back he carried with him a complete treat!&nbsp; On the presentation table of the bus he laid a beautifully executed large print that was also very well matted.&nbsp; I remember very being parked at that spot in front of the old library building, but was unaware how cool Gilli actually looked in combination with the architecture.&nbsp; I'm very glad that David was more aware of it and captured this image.&nbsp; The curtains being drawn indicate that this is taken relatively early in the morning and I am still peacefully asleep in there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I offered David a trade - that print for a tintype portrait of him to be done in the morning.&nbsp; He agreed and now I'm a happy owner of this stunning image - it's going on the wall at home as soon as I get back!&nbsp; Unfortunately in the morning David showed up to tell me that he has been called into work, so I'll have to mail him a plate from my travels as a trade.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VA_1xz7Gx5I/Uht51OeeBuI/AAAAAAAAECc/9a8xI1HXSCo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_David_Gaines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VA_1xz7Gx5I/Uht51OeeBuI/AAAAAAAAECc/9a8xI1HXSCo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_David_Gaines.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now that we are all caught up I am going to take off farther south.&nbsp; In a few days I'm meeting with my friend Justin at his mom's farm in New Jersey, but until then there are still plenty of images to be made!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/08/tintypes-more-maine-and-100-year-old.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-5008108210647347530Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:46:00 +00002013-08-23T10:36:58.154-07:002nd Anniversary Celebrated in Maine<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It's sunny with a warm breeze blowing in Belfast Maine and it's a splendid day and place to celebrate the second anniversary of me meeting Gilli-the-Gillig.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On 7/20/2011 I pulled into the parking lot of a car dealership in Fresno California and, after seeing the beautiful mass of yellow and black towering above the grey concrete of the road, fell in love from first sight.&nbsp; It wasn't long till I was behind the wheel in an open parking lot learning to drive my new baby.&nbsp; She was about 4 times bigger than anything I have driven before and, needless to say, I was a bit intimidated.&nbsp; Gilli handled wonderfully though and I felt at relative ease while driving her 160 miles to the hills above Santa Cruz, where she was to wait for another 6 months until the renovations began.&nbsp; Since last spring we have been inseparable and the time has flown by in pure bliss and harmony.&nbsp; Not a day goes by that I don't thank my stars for bringing us together and for the opportunities that this union had bestowed upon me.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Last year on our first anniversary we had an amazing honor of having Rob McElroy make a daguerreotype image of Gilli and me in Buffalo NY (see the <a href="http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2012/08/bufflo-update-no2-anniversary-niagara.html" target="_blank">update from 2012</a>).&nbsp; This year I continued the tradition of anniversary photo shoots and of course wet plate was the medium of choice this time around.&nbsp; Not having a long enough cable release I was unable to include myself in the shot, but I think Gilli came out rather well in these following images.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XhTLxnPyPsg/UhP54auXXmI/AAAAAAAAD5A/0EXjQMeuIb4/s1600/20130820-IMG_1528.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XhTLxnPyPsg/UhP54auXXmI/AAAAAAAAD5A/0EXjQMeuIb4/s400/20130820-IMG_1528.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CdwjfsqHeO0/UhP6DBCm1DI/AAAAAAAAD5g/voFupTOyKw4/s1600/20130820-IMG_1529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CdwjfsqHeO0/UhP6DBCm1DI/AAAAAAAAD5g/voFupTOyKw4/s400/20130820-IMG_1529.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kBj4KAcvu40/UhP6IM9SHHI/AAAAAAAAD5w/iAq7njHxTzQ/s1600/20130820-IMG_1530.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kBj4KAcvu40/UhP6IM9SHHI/AAAAAAAAD5w/iAq7njHxTzQ/s400/20130820-IMG_1530.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; So, since this update has started from today, let's go in revers timeline order to switch it up a bit.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Here are the two images I made on the way to Belfast at a small coastal town of Lincolnville.&nbsp; The nice beach seems to be the only thing they have there and the row of shops is tightly packed facing it.&nbsp; People were enjoying the great weather and so I couldn't help but shoot that scene (had to turn around in a tight parking lot after I passed a location where I was to park for the shoot - it was worth it though).</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tUkLKoSrvR4/UhP6jeHdqoI/AAAAAAAAD7I/xr7urXLcmrI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lincolnville_ME-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tUkLKoSrvR4/UhP6jeHdqoI/AAAAAAAAD7I/xr7urXLcmrI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lincolnville_ME-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JXrTpN9JuA0/UhP6q33Au-I/AAAAAAAAD7c/E1vO08NbFtc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lincolnville_ME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JXrTpN9JuA0/UhP6q33Au-I/AAAAAAAAD7c/E1vO08NbFtc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lincolnville_ME.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I started the day in Rockport Maine visiting the campus of <a href="http://www.mainemedia.edu/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">Maine Media Workshops and College</a>.&nbsp; I had the history of photography display out and had a few visitors stop by to check it out.&nbsp; Unfortunately this week all the classes there are in digital media, so I didn't have too many visitors.&nbsp; I also neglected to give the folks there any notice of my arrival and so everyone was rather busy and didn't pay too much attention to the big yellow bus.&nbsp; Nonetheless I did peek my head into the couple of darkrooms there and what I saw were adequate and clean facilities, which is what I like to see.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I got to Maine Photo Workshops on Monday and after meeting a few of the faculty went downtown to shoot at the harbor with the following results.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-40IXLvEyglg/UhP7Q_rfWpI/AAAAAAAAD9M/Z8RZSQ06ATY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Rockport_ME-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-40IXLvEyglg/UhP7Q_rfWpI/AAAAAAAAD9M/Z8RZSQ06ATY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Rockport_ME-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-85WPyV3rxOA/UhP7SSzUI1I/AAAAAAAAD9Y/IfoyBgJHerk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Rockport_ME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-85WPyV3rxOA/UhP7SSzUI1I/AAAAAAAAD9Y/IfoyBgJHerk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Rockport_ME.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; That night went to the lecture organized by them at the local opera house. The setting was rather marvelous, but it was the work of the first presenter that really made a lasting impression on me.&nbsp; <a href="http://connieimboden.com/" target="_blank">Connie Imboden</a> has been exploring the human form using water and mirrors for the past 40 years and her images are truly striking, ranging from sensual to scary.&nbsp; Being a largely documentary photographer in the 'straight' tradition I rarely see images of this nature that really resonate with me, but this was one of those exceptions. The lecture was wonderful and Connie's way of presenting was unpretentious and informative, which I enjoyed as much as the images. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PIsAxY8BBi8/UhP5-5KCq3I/AAAAAAAAD5Q/Rn-o1DPvDSw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Maine_Photo_Workshops_Connie_Imboden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PIsAxY8BBi8/UhP5-5KCq3I/AAAAAAAAD5Q/Rn-o1DPvDSw/s400/Photo_Palace_Maine_Photo_Workshops_Connie_Imboden.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Prior to arriving at Rockport I took highway 1, which runs through a bunch of little towns that are overrun by tourists at this time of year.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They all seemed to be quite alike - quaint,&nbsp; clean and culture-less - a perfect embodiment of vacation land that Maine claims to be.&nbsp; I didn't make any stops knowing that there will be plenty of opportunities to capture that scene up the coast.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I was coming from Portland, where I spent three days that were filled with adventures of various degrees of excitement.&nbsp; My last night was spent parked in front of the house of Keith and Rosetta.&nbsp; I met Keith last time I was in Portland and he bought one of my post cards.&nbsp; This time, when we saw each other by the same exact parking spot where I was a year ago, it felt like a reunion of two good friends.&nbsp; He's a fun guy and after a couple of beers and a lively conversation he invited me over for dinner saying that he'll make 'his specialty' - Philly Cheesestake.&nbsp; Apparently not only is he originally from Philadelphia, but he also had a food cart and used to whip up this dish for pedestrians in various degrees of inebriation late into the night.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think this was my first time having one of these famous subs and I must day they were delicious!&nbsp; Not only that, but how many times can you say that a guy wearing a Viking horned helmet cooked one of those for you?&nbsp; In the morning I actually made two plates of these lovely folks and left one with them as a memory of my visit.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GOpaRYoByvM/UhP6VhT4sTI/AAAAAAAAD6c/0lTzTUzLf9Q/s1600/Photo_Palace_Portland_Keith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GOpaRYoByvM/UhP6VhT4sTI/AAAAAAAAD6c/0lTzTUzLf9Q/s400/Photo_Palace_Portland_Keith.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1yEg11zZYiY/UhP6PiEk_HI/AAAAAAAAD6I/LEOhHjiPN4o/s1600/Photo_Palace_Portland_Keith-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1yEg11zZYiY/UhP6PiEk_HI/AAAAAAAAD6I/LEOhHjiPN4o/s400/Photo_Palace_Portland_Keith-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8pwHO7Kgdv4/UhP7HVJ274I/AAAAAAAAD80/JW2dH63dxWQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8pwHO7Kgdv4/UhP7HVJ274I/AAAAAAAAD80/JW2dH63dxWQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-8.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Sunday was spent mainly on catching up on the emails and other neglected business, but I did happen to shoot these two plates before meeting with <a href="http://www.mysteryjig.com/" target="_blank">Troy R Bennett</a> once more.&nbsp; He was kind enough to sell me some more fixer as I am running out of it faster than I thought I would (more about Troy below)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jRwTabH_CnI/UhP6x1ulpaI/AAAAAAAAD70/jhDajhL2fOw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-2-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jRwTabH_CnI/UhP6x1ulpaI/AAAAAAAAD70/jhDajhL2fOw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-2-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QN8e4wJ_86U/UhP7CQ3EWDI/AAAAAAAAD8k/Y1bRIFi1SeI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QN8e4wJ_86U/UhP7CQ3EWDI/AAAAAAAAD8k/Y1bRIFi1SeI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-7.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; So Saturday was indeed the most productive and eventful day for me in Portland.&nbsp; I woke up to a breakfast that Troy graciously bought for me at the local diner.&nbsp; Troy says that in Portland, a city of 60.000+ there are only 4-5 places to have breakfast and the line was the evidence that he wasn't kidding, so those who want to open a diner - take note!&nbsp; As I might have mentioned in the post about John Coffer's wet plate jamboree, I met Troy when I was in Portland last year.&nbsp; Along with being a talented musician he works for Bangor Daily News and a photojournalist and does collodion photography as well.&nbsp; This time, with ample notice, Troy was able to secure a reporter and so after breakfast we drove to a location by the water where Beth (the reporter) interviewed me for the <a href="https://bangordailynews.com/slideshow/california-man-heads-across-country-to-document-america-and-save-analog-photography/" target="_blank">Aticle in Bangor Daily News </a>while Troy was busy shooting for it.&nbsp; I think the piece turned out well, but I do have to remember to smile when being photographed even if the sun is right in my eyes and I'm concentrating on making a correct exposure.&nbsp; Here are the images that I made at that location and then two more from a nit closer to the water.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i3fVkAcYZmM/UhP62qw553I/AAAAAAAAD78/zGyXnlYtBcU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i3fVkAcYZmM/UhP62qw553I/AAAAAAAAD78/zGyXnlYtBcU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This one is on glass and for some reason nasty black lines showed up all through it... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-USTxkuIC82k/UhP66OYcsLI/AAAAAAAAD8E/jR0JS7ETvQ8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-USTxkuIC82k/UhP66OYcsLI/AAAAAAAAD8E/jR0JS7ETvQ8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-4.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ssWEexTtcJA/UhP7AGX0YaI/AAAAAAAAD8c/uaIACwQxaQk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ssWEexTtcJA/UhP7AGX0YaI/AAAAAAAAD8c/uaIACwQxaQk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3HubV0DKs_0/UhP6_b1skkI/AAAAAAAAD8U/ifvCvvHQfkE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3HubV0DKs_0/UhP6_b1skkI/AAAAAAAAD8U/ifvCvvHQfkE/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-5.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It was not too long after that when <a href="http://www.modelmayhem.com/2808001" target="_blank">Scott Anton</a> (another wet plate photographer whom I have never met before) showed up with his lovely wife to pick up the 8x10 Century camera that I was transporting for him from Rhode Island home of Matt Wronski.&nbsp; Scott is an excellent guy and apparently a super-baker.&nbsp; He brought an apple/blackberry pie as part of the payment for the delivery and it was delicious!&nbsp; I later shared it with Troy and we almost finished the whole thing, but I felt that it should be spread even farther, so a quarter of it was donated to the folks behind the counter of the coffee shop who let us consume outside food at their establishment.&nbsp; Scott, his wife and I went out for a beer and dinner and had a nice time walking around and being bewildered by the nightlife of Portland.&nbsp; Scott seemed surprised at the level of activity there.&nbsp; He does live on a farm and the nearest town to him has population of 600, but to me, coming from San Diego, this was a normal drunken zoo.&nbsp; After they left I went into a bar that had live music and listened to a cover band do everyone's favorites - they even did Mike's Song by Phish, so I couldn't help dancing then.&nbsp; Here is Scott and his new camera.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_bth0auzlPM/UhP6aIAJBSI/AAAAAAAAD6s/Wh-902MBGmY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Scott_Anton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_bth0auzlPM/UhP6aIAJBSI/AAAAAAAAD6s/Wh-902MBGmY/s400/Photo_Palace_Scott_Anton.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And here is Troy later that day enjoying Scott's pie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QGSsrv-yMWo/UhP6aIGKbDI/AAAAAAAAD6o/8jcgxtiTv2Y/s1600/Photo_Palace_Portland_Troy_Bennet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QGSsrv-yMWo/UhP6aIGKbDI/AAAAAAAAD6o/8jcgxtiTv2Y/s400/Photo_Palace_Portland_Troy_Bennet.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; The previous day I made the following plates after getting to Portland in late afternoon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-akAYNwNYQaY/UhP7F5yd4JI/AAAAAAAAD8s/0WXsXgmr5LQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-akAYNwNYQaY/UhP7F5yd4JI/AAAAAAAAD8s/0WXsXgmr5LQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Double exposure of the observatory.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I made one last year on film and so it only seemed appropriate to do it again in tintype form. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WU_wyrpiS2k/UhP6vNSbV3I/AAAAAAAAD7s/aRDJuOP3ytA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-2-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WU_wyrpiS2k/UhP6vNSbV3I/AAAAAAAAD7s/aRDJuOP3ytA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-2-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cTVYr_EGpv8/UhP67IwTHyI/AAAAAAAAD8M/L20UwSQ25MQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cTVYr_EGpv8/UhP67IwTHyI/AAAAAAAAD8M/L20UwSQ25MQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_ME-2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While I was walking around downtown someone had left flowers tucked into Gilli's mirror - what a lovely gesture! And people in general seemed to remember my previous visit.&nbsp; I even found a note on my bench that was tossed through the window that was from someone I told last year about the sludge that's sitting at the bottom of my diesel tank and in the note there was a solution suggested. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ljZCIQXFrQE/UhP6R3LONRI/AAAAAAAAD6U/wNqtLeFW1gw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Portland_Flower_Gift.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ljZCIQXFrQE/UhP6R3LONRI/AAAAAAAAD6U/wNqtLeFW1gw/s400/Photo_Palace_Portland_Flower_Gift.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; Before getting to Portland I passed through a few coastal towns and saw a neat little water park in Scarborough that seemed to ask to be photographed since it was pointing right at the road.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nhMc7ixUvUs/UhP7SkYf0tI/AAAAAAAAD9c/QuMrNE2vlOk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Scarborough_ME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nhMc7ixUvUs/UhP7SkYf0tI/AAAAAAAAD9c/QuMrNE2vlOk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Scarborough_ME.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Before that was a town of Alfred and it's historic church.&nbsp; I can't remember the exact importance of it that was told to me by the lady who lives in the house pictured behind the tree in the image below, but I do remember her saying that one of the windows in the church is a stained glass Tiffany.<br />&nbsp; It was a very pretty window indeed and I only wish I would have been able to see it from the inside, but, like every church in USA, the building was locked - if it's not Sunday then it's not time to visit a place of God....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GRl7FtctGx0/UhP6cFVXJ_I/AAAAAAAAD60/uE0oRN9tw4M/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Alfred_ME-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GRl7FtctGx0/UhP6cFVXJ_I/AAAAAAAAD60/uE0oRN9tw4M/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Alfred_ME-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NpypfBvshAo/UhP6jmd7O1I/AAAAAAAAD7M/GtbXd8cXDmI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Alfred_ME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NpypfBvshAo/UhP6jmd7O1I/AAAAAAAAD7M/GtbXd8cXDmI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Alfred_ME.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The day before (Thursday) I went through yet another Rochester - this time in Maine and made the following plates while showing the process to a few interested pedestrians who got drawn in by Gilli.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eJ6Rsgj7kws/UhP7MeqwRZI/AAAAAAAAD9E/fg9PKDTF0IE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Rochester_ME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eJ6Rsgj7kws/UhP7MeqwRZI/AAAAAAAAD9E/fg9PKDTF0IE/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Rochester_ME.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nj63m37i1GQ/UhP7KW42srI/AAAAAAAAD88/bvgs10E6aHY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Rochester_ME-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nj63m37i1GQ/UhP7KW42srI/AAAAAAAAD88/bvgs10E6aHY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Rochester_ME-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I started the day by leaving my relatives in Boston and driving to a mall in Nashua Maine to consult Apple folks about how I can possibly run a PC program on my laptop.&nbsp; I would like to figure out an easy and inexpensive way to do that so I would be able to pay tribute to my friend Kenneth who passed away last year and was very much into space exploration.&nbsp; A group of his fiends are currently involved in a month-long project where citizens look for asteroids via the images provided to them by NASA.&nbsp; Unfortunately that program doesn't run on Macs and so I am frantically looking for a solution that won't cost me $200, so I can help them out.&nbsp; So far I have tried downloading a few programs, but can not seem to get them running...&nbsp; I am an analog person! I would totally spend a month at NASA if they actually provided hard copies of those pictures...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;While waiting for my appointment I did make these two images - I think they embody the spirit of America no less than any other images I have made so far, maybe even more so.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D5P1k22yVZM/UhP6pEfv2rI/AAAAAAAAD7U/D6Sms_jg50w/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Nashua_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D5P1k22yVZM/UhP6pEfv2rI/AAAAAAAAD7U/D6Sms_jg50w/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Nashua_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lK-xP3qMeyU/UhP6ukI9DLI/AAAAAAAAD7k/Oe728g9_VA8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Nashua_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lK-xP3qMeyU/UhP6ukI9DLI/AAAAAAAAD7k/Oe728g9_VA8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Nashua_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Well, this is the end to yet another update, which you, my dear reader, seemed to have finished reading.&nbsp; I bid good night to all (day, morning or evening - whenever you might have stumbled upon this entry) and am off to try to find a nice quiet parking spot in Belfast where a man can rest overnight without being disturbed.&nbsp; Tomorrow a lady from a nearby town who saw the article, talked about above, is meeting me here in the morning and is bringing over a few old photo items including some Spotone and Kodalith!&nbsp; Don't know what Spotone and Kodalith are and why I put an exclamation point after them?&nbsp; Well, too bad - you'll just have to ask me about it later!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/08/2nd-anniversary-celebrated-in-maine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-5000971652858603841Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:03:00 +00002013-08-13T18:37:29.803-07:00RI, CT, Magic Lantern Theatre and more<style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; 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After leaving Tim Massie in NY I headed to Matt Wronski in Rhode Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I met Matt online in one of the Facebook groups and then in person at the wet plate jamboree at John Coffer’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He was very kind to invite me to stay over while I’m on the road and I gladly agreed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Matt and his wife Amanda live in East Greenwich and own a restaurant by the name of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tio-Mateos-Mexican-Grille-Greenwich-Bay-Gourmet/158330987528471" target="_blank">Tio Mateos</a> where one can have delicious Mexican as well as French cuisine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Of course what connected Matt and me is our love of collodion process and I was happy to see yet another photographer’s setup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Matt has a good selection of vintage large format cameras and really does know what he is doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Below is a shot of his restaurant with Matt moving too fast for my iPhone to capture him behind the counter and a quick snap of one of his cameras – an 11x14 Century studio camera atop a gorgeous stand.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lmcO2DgaVUY/UgqLlDj1rUI/AAAAAAAAD08/K-cuGd0jOWw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Matt_Wronsky_Camera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lmcO2DgaVUY/UgqLlDj1rUI/AAAAAAAAD08/K-cuGd0jOWw/s400/Photo_Palace_Matt_Wronsky_Camera.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_zU6WTW9Py0/UgqLlHFLL9I/AAAAAAAAD1A/Z68qd2-lYiY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Matt_Wronsky_Restaurant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_zU6WTW9Py0/UgqLlHFLL9I/AAAAAAAAD1A/Z68qd2-lYiY/s400/Photo_Palace_Matt_Wronsky_Restaurant.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Matt also has arranged for a three-way trade involving an 8x10 Century camera and now I am transporting that beast up to Maine to Scott Anton – I love the fact that The Photo Palace Bus is continuing to enable others to pursue their work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>After I left Matt I saw a post on Facebook from him saying that my visit and out location shoot has pushed him to speed up his plans on building his own mobile set for working with collodion on location – Gilli is a great catalyst for such ideas to come to life!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I spent a couple of nights there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>During the day we went to visit his friends, who fed us a great dinner, and shot a few plates around town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Here are the fruits of my labor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I got to say that the images came out a bit less clean than I was hoping for, but I guess sometimes that happens with wet plate and I’ll take it as an opportunity to get better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>An interesting side-note: the town where Matt’s friends live happens to have a graveyard containing the remains of the first pilgrim woman to be born in New England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>We only found that out from a local woman after shooting the cemetery, but I happened to have captured two plates of the obelisk erected for her (apparently I only have one of the plates copied digitally…).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-REXFz7QQk0Y/UgqMYyv86iI/AAAAAAAAD14/Yv4ZDijxTig/s1600/Photo_Palace_Atlantic_Toes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-REXFz7QQk0Y/UgqMYyv86iI/AAAAAAAAD14/Yv4ZDijxTig/s400/Photo_Palace_Atlantic_Toes.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First time in 2013 that I stepped into the Atlantic Ocean!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Water was warm and I wished I had a swim suite with me... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJC1eO_k0AA/UgqMZKr1lkI/AAAAAAAAD2A/lLbi9ro_Azc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Pabodie_Grave_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJC1eO_k0AA/UgqMZKr1lkI/AAAAAAAAD2A/lLbi9ro_Azc/s400/Photo_Palace_Pabodie_Grave_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--HbrzNvbFpo/UgqMZT4ht4I/AAAAAAAAD2M/RK0ws-33EaY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Pabodie_Grave_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--HbrzNvbFpo/UgqMZT4ht4I/AAAAAAAAD2M/RK0ws-33EaY/s400/Photo_Palace_Pabodie_Grave_2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tt5ih-itDVY/UgqMYxvfZvI/AAAAAAAAD18/Wu_wfvM22Zk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Pabodie_Grave_13jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tt5ih-itDVY/UgqMYxvfZvI/AAAAAAAAD18/Wu_wfvM22Zk/s400/Photo_Palace_Pabodie_Grave_13jpg.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">94 years of life for the first woman settler!&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Way to go Elisabeth Pabodie. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LEwbCeMlf_4/UgqLuo1w6qI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/wYkxFdTZs2E/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LEwbCeMlf_4/UgqLuo1w6qI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/wYkxFdTZs2E/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charles the fisherman - charming fella who stopped to chat with Matt and me while we were shooting. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jNrb3-PVrOU/UgqLueXNdAI/AAAAAAAAD1M/QCuJ0TAU13Y/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jNrb3-PVrOU/UgqLueXNdAI/AAAAAAAAD1M/QCuJ0TAU13Y/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Don't know what happened in the top right of this plate...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2l-0mrVDCxw/UgqLuooAfAI/AAAAAAAAD1U/-KdCynkkKqU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2l-0mrVDCxw/UgqLuooAfAI/AAAAAAAAD1U/-KdCynkkKqU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island-4.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And this one went dark for some reason... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ptr8oNtRvow/UgqLvD5_6WI/AAAAAAAAD1o/-vZarO8yV5A/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ptr8oNtRvow/UgqLvD5_6WI/AAAAAAAAD1o/-vZarO8yV5A/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island-5.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Favorite plate of the day - of course it has to be the one that gets scratched in the wash.... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--FHeaLLeHpw/UgqLvOnuS_I/AAAAAAAAD1k/_MPYS3Ue2cs/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--FHeaLLeHpw/UgqLvOnuS_I/AAAAAAAAD1k/_MPYS3Ue2cs/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintypes_Rhode_Island.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Graveyard with Elisabeth's obelisk. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Rhode Island it was only a short drive down to East Haddam CT where I was looking very much forward to spending time with Terry and Deborah Borton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>They run <a href="http://www.magiclanternshows.com/magiclanternshows.htm" target="_blank">AmericanMagic Lantern Theatre</a> and Terry was very helpful during the process of me setting up my own show. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>He is also a superb showman and I was lucky enough to see one of his performances in San Diego last spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He is one of the leading authorities on the medium of Magic Lantern and is currently writing two books on the subject. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>Terry is a big fan of the work of one Joseph Beale – an illustrator working for the Briggs company in late 19<sup>th</sup> century, whose work was reproduced widely in Lantern Slide form and, according to Terry, has been in continuous use for over a century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In fact, while looking though my collection Terry was quick to find a Beale slide, so I was apparently continuing the on-screen presence of that artist even without explicit knowledge of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Beale’s works were copied using wet plate collodion technique well into 1930s and in fact he promoted that fact due to the superb rendition of detail and tones possible with this process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Not knowing much about the working of wet plate, Terry asked me if during my visit I would demonstrate it to him and I was happy to oblige.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>Needless to say I was extremely happy to have received an invitation to stay with him and was so excited to get there that I didn’t even stop to make any plates on the way, even though it was a gorgeous day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>When I did get there and after a brief lunch with a picturesque view of the Connecticut river I asked Terry and Deborah if I could make a few plates of them while showing Terry how wet plate images were made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I was in for a treat as Terry and Deborah dress up in period clothes while conducing their shows and so I was able to create following very fancy-looking portraits on their deck.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fupXl5dDcq8/UgqNiw5GCEI/AAAAAAAAD2g/Ct18uw04yXc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bortons-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fupXl5dDcq8/UgqNiw5GCEI/AAAAAAAAD2g/Ct18uw04yXc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bortons-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deborah and Terry Borton </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NUx_Jtovn58/UgqNjP0cnlI/AAAAAAAAD20/Wt68fJ0XPYg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bortons-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NUx_Jtovn58/UgqNjP0cnlI/AAAAAAAAD20/Wt68fJ0XPYg/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bortons-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deborah the Queen of the Castle</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGok8hdll7k/UgqNi0pFWyI/AAAAAAAAD2k/2GKoes7ejaI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bortons-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGok8hdll7k/UgqNi0pFWyI/AAAAAAAAD2k/2GKoes7ejaI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bortons-4.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Terry the Researcher. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C-Pp5G0wO_g/UgqNjWkCoWI/AAAAAAAAD2s/svKdRFbJA6Q/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bortons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C-Pp5G0wO_g/UgqNjWkCoWI/AAAAAAAAD2s/svKdRFbJA6Q/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bortons.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magic Lanter</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Terry mentioned that nearby lived a very talented photographer by the name of Jody Dole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>After placing a call to him a meeting was arranged and soon Jody and his youngest son came by to check out the bus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He seemed rather impressed with Gilli as well as with my most recent plates and invited us over to see his studio the following morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I went to sleep rather late due to the fact that the cabin where I was staying contained all sorts of marvelous ephemera related to Magic Lantern and I was browsing books and looking at posters on the walls till well past midnight.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tZMb6Qvu_ec/UgqN8WuEkGI/AAAAAAAAD3Q/nuYxNRD-HZ0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tZMb6Qvu_ec/UgqN8WuEkGI/AAAAAAAAD3Q/nuYxNRD-HZ0/s400/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lunch with a river view.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zIZLa3WU0x4/UgqN-xwQq1I/AAAAAAAAD3s/Q6CrRrLea7E/s1600/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zIZLa3WU0x4/UgqN-xwQq1I/AAAAAAAAD3s/Q6CrRrLea7E/s400/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit-5.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A sapling of a thorn-less blackberry bush from Borton's garden,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope it survives the trip and does well in San Diego </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_5menZxRinQ/UgqN_ULURaI/AAAAAAAAD34/gKVJcIaX2kM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_5menZxRinQ/UgqN_ULURaI/AAAAAAAAD34/gKVJcIaX2kM/s400/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit-8.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Zoetrope built specifically for Terry and his lectures </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hm3GQrw5OgQ/UgqODAxWsjI/AAAAAAAAD4Y/-h8gIeLxBmg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hm3GQrw5OgQ/UgqODAxWsjI/AAAAAAAAD4Y/-h8gIeLxBmg/s400/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit-9.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gilli and the Magic Cottage,&nbsp; the garden in front is rather cool - </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a fantastic compilation of knotted wood and mossy pathways.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KHdGg40Ykew/UgqOCma_CkI/AAAAAAAAD4Q/pN3ItmZ9ozI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KHdGg40Ykew/UgqOCma_CkI/AAAAAAAAD4Q/pN3ItmZ9ozI/s400/Photo_Palace_Terry_Borton_Visit.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Manuscript for one of the books by the Bortons - to come out next year. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next morning at around 10am we pulled up to Jody’s studio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Jody is a truly great photographer with commercial work stretching more than three decades back and subject matter ranging widely – all of it being absolutely top-notch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>What hasn’t he shot!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I can’t think of anything…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>All of the images I saw during his quick presentation were of the kind of quality that every photographer aspires to put out and his wet plate work was of no lower standard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Jody and his two sons have learned the process from John Coffer himself, so we had an instant connection through Camp Tintype. As it happens Jody figured out that we had been in contact before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Apparently two of the twenty or so 4x5 glass plate holder that I sold earlier in the year on eBay went to him – what a small and wonderful world it is!&nbsp; Our visit with Jody was brief, but powerful - just the inspiration of seeing his work was enough to make me want to do better with every image that I produce…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Here are the plates that I made later in the afternoon after taking Gilli around the town of East Haddam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Efsphn7I9PI/UgqNyAtg7rI/AAAAAAAAD3A/tA_7Qhn7Ack/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_East_Haddam-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Efsphn7I9PI/UgqNyAtg7rI/AAAAAAAAD3A/tA_7Qhn7Ack/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_East_Haddam-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kkOmuP9U6wE/UgqNydclfeI/AAAAAAAAD3E/8X09GLf4L1g/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_East_Haddam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kkOmuP9U6wE/UgqNydclfeI/AAAAAAAAD3E/8X09GLf4L1g/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_East_Haddam.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now I am in a Massachusetts town of Northborough where I am about to go see my lovely grandmother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Once again, just like last year, we are on the East Coast at the same time and I am looking forward to seeing where our only relatives in US reside. Last year I popped in for a quick visit while they were vacationing in Cape Cod and now I’ll stay the night or two at their home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>I think I’ll get there in time to make a few more plates happen – every day that I don’t shoot I feel like I’m slacking off…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/08/ri-ct-magic-lantern-theatre-and-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-8010268320311148663Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:43:00 +00002013-08-10T07:33:57.469-07:00BIGGEST UPDATE EVER: Buffalo, Wet Plate Jamboree...<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>WARNING</b> - this is the longest update I will probably ever write.&nbsp; It was worked on over the period of three days in five different locations.&nbsp; Grab a cup of coffee, sit back in your favorite chair and enjoy the ride!</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; First things first.&nbsp; Last post was done while I was still in Ohio and to get to Buffalo I took route 20 along Lake Erie.&nbsp; First short stop was in Cleveland.&nbsp; That city has been recently in the news for all the wrong reasons, but I found it to be quite interesting visually and so stopped to make these two images.&nbsp; I would have made more plates there, but the sun was starting to go down, so I pushed onward and found a quiet place to park for the night.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e0dxgiXmB94/UfrBZxppbSI/AAAAAAAADIk/2UkCe6iKsG8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Cleveland_OH_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e0dxgiXmB94/UfrBZxppbSI/AAAAAAAADIk/2UkCe6iKsG8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Cleveland_OH_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EE0d92n2Dl8/UfrBZeFQr1I/AAAAAAAADIg/8htq0WS01Ak/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Cleveland_OH_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EE0d92n2Dl8/UfrBZeFQr1I/AAAAAAAADIg/8htq0WS01Ak/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Cleveland_OH_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After waking up I realized that I had a rare chance to make tintypes that day in three different states - OH, PA and NY.&nbsp; The first compositions that I found to be compelling enough for a stop were in the town of Conneaut.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SX7cKOh_YwY/UfrCWfP8DrI/AAAAAAAADIw/Yf3WNHgMJk0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Conneaut_OH_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SX7cKOh_YwY/UfrCWfP8DrI/AAAAAAAADIw/Yf3WNHgMJk0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Conneaut_OH_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MIZn2yViHKY/UfrCZ53qAWI/AAAAAAAADI8/sDfMuLl5ZSM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Conneaut_OH_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MIZn2yViHKY/UfrCZ53qAWI/AAAAAAAADI8/sDfMuLl5ZSM/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Conneaut_OH_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next was a short strip of Pennsylvania and there I stopped in Erie to capture the old charm of that quaint little city with the following two plates.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5deANoQTGoM/UfrDMvZKn8I/AAAAAAAADJI/ucGCkWntJe4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Erie_PA_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5deANoQTGoM/UfrDMvZKn8I/AAAAAAAADJI/ucGCkWntJe4/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Erie_PA_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9GsLbYdxGis/UfrDMY4pi2I/AAAAAAAADJE/QW6pTb1mxAw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Erie_PA_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9GsLbYdxGis/UfrDMY4pi2I/AAAAAAAADJE/QW6pTb1mxAw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Erie_PA_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After I entered the state of New York I did not drive more than 100ft before seeing a barn that really called to me, so I turned around for the following scenes on the edge of a town called Ripley.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--cZLS0Fd8ak/UfrDwbQXg6I/AAAAAAAADJc/WsvKWJndZSA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Ripley_NY_1-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--cZLS0Fd8ak/UfrDwbQXg6I/AAAAAAAADJc/WsvKWJndZSA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Ripley_NY_1-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M9pqPC-268o/UfrDvjg_-hI/AAAAAAAADJU/tKBIphd78Hc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_RipleY_NY_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M9pqPC-268o/UfrDvjg_-hI/AAAAAAAADJU/tKBIphd78Hc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_RipleY_NY_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Apparently a bar right next to where I pulled over had live music in celebration of the owner's birthday and a special on chicken wings, so I could not resist having a taste of local culture by sampling the goods - I must admit there were the best BBQ wings I have ever had.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Powered by that I pressed on to the town of Portland and arrived there just in time to be able to make these two tintypes.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3jhRriVoXC4/UfrEsWbKW8I/AAAAAAAADJ0/MwkPuw6irD0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_NY_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3jhRriVoXC4/UfrEsWbKW8I/AAAAAAAADJ0/MwkPuw6irD0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_NY_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--a7d_n_LY_M/UfrErNx4HbI/AAAAAAAADJs/hLON-OAFVmk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_NY_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--a7d_n_LY_M/UfrErNx4HbI/AAAAAAAADJs/hLON-OAFVmk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Portland_NY_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; By the time I was done with the wash it was rather dark outside, so drove on toward Buffalo as far as I could.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Next day I had a workshop scheduled and, not wanting to be late for that, I drove straight there in the morning.&nbsp; Turned out that I got there pretty early and so had time to create the following tintypes before going to meet my student.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lC2agnCM2Fg/UfrFpZvupLI/AAAAAAAADKE/Pb0DaYYS4Qg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lC2agnCM2Fg/UfrFpZvupLI/AAAAAAAADKE/Pb0DaYYS4Qg/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KW6W--q4akk/UfrFpJNPy1I/AAAAAAAADKA/XIwx6sicz3s/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KW6W--q4akk/UfrFpJNPy1I/AAAAAAAADKA/XIwx6sicz3s/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RyHOzr6Mx5I/UfrFp6u1iLI/AAAAAAAADKQ/FxyMDM1Wf-c/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RyHOzr6Mx5I/UfrFp6u1iLI/AAAAAAAADKQ/FxyMDM1Wf-c/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Not being entirely happy with the results I was getting with the new batch of collodion that I started working with just that morning I experimented with it a bit more at the location where the workshop was to take place.&nbsp; Here is the resulting images with which I was happy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xG2X_iC5Ick/UfrGbGLuRWI/AAAAAAAADKk/FZmkPZ5ZJVo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xG2X_iC5Ick/UfrGbGLuRWI/AAAAAAAADKk/FZmkPZ5ZJVo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FJUWkwgSA-k/UfrGan-ff5I/AAAAAAAADKc/0OYGlvn3af0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FJUWkwgSA-k/UfrGan-ff5I/AAAAAAAADKc/0OYGlvn3af0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_5.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I didn't have to wait long until John Waller arrived for his first experience with wet plate images.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A0n348S-jAI/UfrHCuRpaII/AAAAAAAADKs/GDDjVy2-Ufw/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Waller_Tattoo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A0n348S-jAI/UfrHCuRpaII/AAAAAAAADKs/GDDjVy2-Ufw/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Waller_Tattoo.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As you can see by his tattoo he is no stranger to large format photography, but wanted to see if working with collodion will be something that meshes with his nature well.&nbsp; I have to say that he was a natural at all the minute details that are involved in the process and made three excellent images during a short period of time.&nbsp; Besides being a creative photographer and an obsessive long-distance runner,&nbsp; John has the discipline and attention to detail that comes with his IT-related job and a chemistry background as well, so I think he'll go far when he starts making his own collodion images.&nbsp; Afterward we went out to dinner and on the way John showed me a great place to go in the morning to shoot some more industrial scenery in Buffalo.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I actually chose to park right there for the night and woke up to make 4 more plates.&nbsp; Unfortunately it appears that I don't have them copied just yet, so I'll try to remember to update this post later and post them up.&nbsp; For now, here they are being washed with Gilli in the background basking in the morning sun.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jZXuS6IhzWA/UfrJAtnmSiI/AAAAAAAADLM/-4rwuVhCUJs/s1600/Photo_Palace_Making_Tintypse_Buffalo_NY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jZXuS6IhzWA/UfrJAtnmSiI/AAAAAAAADLM/-4rwuVhCUJs/s400/Photo_Palace_Making_Tintypse_Buffalo_NY.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While I was there my fiend Rob McElroy called me up knowing I'm in town and inquired what I was doing in the next few hours.&nbsp; I had to be at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/delawarecamerabuffalo" target="_blank">Delaware Camera</a> shop by 4pm, but had no particular plans until then.&nbsp; Rob told me to sit tight and that he was going to contact some of the local media to see if they wanted to cover my second appearance in Buffalo.&nbsp; It was not long until Channel 2 News, a local NBC affiliate, called me and sent a reporter my way to see what I was up to.&nbsp; He led me to the local abandoned train station - Central Terminal and there conducted a <a href="http://www.wgrz.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=2575255329001" target="_blank">SHORT INTERVIEW</a> while I was making the following tintypes.&nbsp; I think he did a great job on the interview and the images also turned out quite well, so I was very happy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vaJjjSM88Rc/UfrIRQixbyI/AAAAAAAADLA/m61ZyAtb9LE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vaJjjSM88Rc/UfrIRQixbyI/AAAAAAAADLA/m61ZyAtb9LE/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y9d3yIdDC1E/UfrIROIyL8I/AAAAAAAADK8/832D88eCRek/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y9d3yIdDC1E/UfrIROIyL8I/AAAAAAAADK8/832D88eCRek/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_7.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; At Delaware Camera I was greeted by Eric Jensen.&nbsp; I set up the history of photography display and got my wet plate chemistry set up in anticipation of portrait customers.&nbsp; Eric posted the event on the store's social media and so I had a good flow of people coming through all day.&nbsp; Rob McElroy stopped by and documented the event with his digital camera.&nbsp; Visitors took their chance to look at the history display, peek their heads into the darkroom and buy some of my original prints and plates.&nbsp; Two people came from PA with their son to have a couple of tintype portraits done.&nbsp; They dressed up in time-appropriate attire and the images came out splendidly.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KhQ1Uic7whM/UgKSQKApUMI/AAAAAAAADQE/dcCm-hi5oJk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_History_Display.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KhQ1Uic7whM/UgKSQKApUMI/AAAAAAAADQE/dcCm-hi5oJk/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_History_Display.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p2fPT66s3dw/UgKSSvinHfI/AAAAAAAADQc/HOpnifK35yE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Tintype_Session_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p2fPT66s3dw/UgKSSvinHfI/AAAAAAAADQc/HOpnifK35yE/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Tintype_Session_3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efw0lbKb3KY/UgKSQ2tT0tI/AAAAAAAADQQ/jpcqcZ0STHM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Tintype_Session_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efw0lbKb3KY/UgKSQ2tT0tI/AAAAAAAADQQ/jpcqcZ0STHM/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Tintype_Session_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Here is something <b>VERY</b> interesting that happened and we have Gilli to thank for being a catalyst.&nbsp; Apparently Rob was talking with someone he knows well and in the conversation mentioned for one reason or another a local photographer by the name of Howard Beach - a well-known portrait photographer during 1920-40s time.&nbsp; That was overheard by another bus visitor and he said that as it happens he knows a lady who currently owns his old house.&nbsp; Not only that, he said that her father, who bought the building after Howard passed away, has not touched his negatives and other belongings since 1947!!!&nbsp; He offered to arrange a tour of the house for later that evening and I was invited to come along... </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; At 8pm we (a party of 4 explorers) met the owner of a house and were led inside a beautiful brick house... WOW!&nbsp; No words can describe the astonishing beauty of this place and the real photographic time capsule that we found ourselves in.&nbsp; This house was actually owned by another photographer Eleck Hall prior to Beach, so it was a site for art making for about 50 years starting in late 19th century.&nbsp; The walls and ceiling were painted with ornate patterns, there were wood carvings the likes of which I had never seen before, old gas light fixtures were still sticking out out the walls.... and that was just the reception room!&nbsp; First we went down to the basement.&nbsp; It was a labyrinth of rooms - negative storage rooms, darkroom, more negative storage rooms...&nbsp; Everything was covered with an inch of dust and mold has taken hold of pretty much anything with a surface.&nbsp; That only added to the experience.&nbsp; Boxes upon boxed of glass negatives were still stacked in rows and piles.&nbsp; Mr. Beach was one of the most prolific photographers in Buffalo and he that clearly showed.&nbsp; Rooms were numbered with negative reference numbers - one room would hold about 15.000(!) glass plates, and there were at least half a dozen rooms like that.&nbsp; First we saw 5x7 plates, then 8x10, then 11x14, 16x20 and finally 20x24in GLASS PLATE NEGATIVES!&nbsp; (you can see the look in my eyes in one of the pictures below... - that pretty much sums it all up...).&nbsp; Bottle of chemicals were still sitting on shelves in the darkroom&nbsp; Dust one off and you can read the hand written label - "Boric Acid, another one "Pyro" and so on...&nbsp; On the wall there was even the old intercom system that would have had two bakelite cones for listening and speaking into (those were removed at some point) - labels by the buttons read 'reception', 'printing room', darkroom' and 'retouching room'.&nbsp; Howard Beach was also the inventor of&nbsp; bi-focal lenses in 1920s - his glass grinding blocks and lens elements were strewed about in various places.&nbsp; Rob was ecstatic - as it happens he knows Beach's work very well and has two beautiful portraits done by Beach hanging in the office, so he could not believe that all this time these precious negatives were sitting untouched just two blocks from away.&nbsp; Our hands became quickly covered with dirt, but none were as dirty as Rob's hands - he must have opened every box and overturned every cover - he is extremely meticulous.&nbsp; Most of this had to be done by the light of a single construction light, which had to be dragged from room to room and plugged into various outlets as the electrical system in the house was 100+ years old and unreliable to say the least.&nbsp; This truly made it feel like we were exploring a system of caves and made the experience even more thrilling.&nbsp; I will never forget stepping into an octagonal century-old vault in the deepest corner of the basement, behind an iron door... In it - more negatives or course!&nbsp; There were also a ton of old prints (most of them being eaten by mold and fungus), boxed of never used lens packaging, Beach's old diploma...&nbsp; it was all there....&nbsp; We must have spent a good hour and a half in the basement along and there was still two floors above us!&nbsp; On the second floor there was a contraption for making contact prints that would hold at least 30 8x10 and 11x14 printing frames and would rotate them around a carbon-arc light!&nbsp; None of us have ever seen anything like that and when I left Buffalo two days later Rob was still obsessed with going through his library to find it in one of the catalogs.&nbsp; Unfortunately the old sky-light for the studio was taken out when the previous owner converted the top floor into his office, but thank god for his decision to ;eave the rest of it all virtually untouched.&nbsp; I can probably go on and on about this experience, but they say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so below are some of the photos taken by me and Rob on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ran5ORPDUWM/UgKU8jJfKOI/AAAAAAAADT8/d5pUUs_gKKQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ran5ORPDUWM/UgKU8jJfKOI/AAAAAAAADT8/d5pUUs_gKKQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rob found the original plaque still on the wall by the door </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nxd2S3PAnpc/UgKU4HonGKI/AAAAAAAADTw/jXi7IEWZzFw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nxd2S3PAnpc/UgKU4HonGKI/AAAAAAAADTw/jXi7IEWZzFw/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The house as it is now </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6glWnF3X9cY/UgKVDyOdpzI/AAAAAAAADUY/X_1vdvXKGaI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6glWnF3X9cY/UgKVDyOdpzI/AAAAAAAADUY/X_1vdvXKGaI/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-22.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a picture of the house with the skylight studio still visible</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e10ur0BH2eo/UgKUARmoP5I/AAAAAAAADR8/fSziGHVING4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e10ur0BH2eo/UgKUARmoP5I/AAAAAAAADR8/fSziGHVING4/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Downstairs reception room </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Xzw3-NpsWo/UgKUfYSthGI/AAAAAAAADS0/Xw6jQiQMi54/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Xzw3-NpsWo/UgKUfYSthGI/AAAAAAAADS0/Xw6jQiQMi54/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-3.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More of the reception room </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b87s8i9DBQU/UgKUfRjJX3I/AAAAAAAADS4/yo4H2gIOtbY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b87s8i9DBQU/UgKUfRjJX3I/AAAAAAAADS4/yo4H2gIOtbY/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DtbZPVqA7mI/UgKUfzekyPI/AAAAAAAADTE/oS_vPxWzCgM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DtbZPVqA7mI/UgKUfzekyPI/AAAAAAAADTE/oS_vPxWzCgM/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-5.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e9VZE9NfRLQ/UgKUn6OhhCI/AAAAAAAADTM/8C4sMX-KnyI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e9VZE9NfRLQ/UgKUn6OhhCI/AAAAAAAADTM/8C4sMX-KnyI/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-6.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UANamI8MBuI/UgKUxKD7EgI/AAAAAAAADTc/omss4hsg4mM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UANamI8MBuI/UgKUxKD7EgI/AAAAAAAADTc/omss4hsg4mM/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-8.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j0rc5YNSb50/UgKUz1VfYWI/AAAAAAAADTk/Mf69ig_g48U/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j0rc5YNSb50/UgKUz1VfYWI/AAAAAAAADTk/Mf69ig_g48U/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-9.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ay0tgEQHfJE/UgKTfpprZCI/AAAAAAAADQs/VlYuyFyeBns/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ay0tgEQHfJE/UgKTfpprZCI/AAAAAAAADQs/VlYuyFyeBns/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-10.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5pFVFkUEJzo/UgKTip7UGWI/AAAAAAAADQ0/B9AMSMkm8F4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5pFVFkUEJzo/UgKTip7UGWI/AAAAAAAADQ0/B9AMSMkm8F4/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-11.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The textures....&nbsp; Too bad I can't post the smell of the place on here - that smell... </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BbuiaNdPe0k/UgKTkR_BR7I/AAAAAAAADQ8/IbkBWZdvP60/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BbuiaNdPe0k/UgKTkR_BR7I/AAAAAAAADQ8/IbkBWZdvP60/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-12.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More negative boxes... </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZI7WYIyo0Ig/UgKTo1ojpdI/AAAAAAAADRE/g3xM-bqYt8A/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZI7WYIyo0Ig/UgKTo1ojpdI/AAAAAAAADRE/g3xM-bqYt8A/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-13.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vault door </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eRAhmaiLOPo/UgKTtK425QI/AAAAAAAADRM/r2xyTy0kfhY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eRAhmaiLOPo/UgKTtK425QI/AAAAAAAADRM/r2xyTy0kfhY/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-14.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Look at the size of those negatives! </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LAOMKe3qW20/UgKTvwEJMZI/AAAAAAAADRU/hGZxVa6kPOc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LAOMKe3qW20/UgKTvwEJMZI/AAAAAAAADRU/hGZxVa6kPOc/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-15.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glass grinding stones </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kLjFVvvwEmo/UgKTxwor87I/AAAAAAAADRc/aKt0Tv4Z8yk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kLjFVvvwEmo/UgKTxwor87I/AAAAAAAADRc/aKt0Tv4Z8yk/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-16.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hand-written notebooks... </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M0lxiXKwx60/UgKT2aFNMjI/AAAAAAAADRk/ofdVsOCJwN8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M0lxiXKwx60/UgKT2aFNMjI/AAAAAAAADRk/ofdVsOCJwN8/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-17.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gorgeous prints! </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RwiOOIIy6XM/UgKT9iiHA7I/AAAAAAAADR0/HUMSzZuoDUg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RwiOOIIy6XM/UgKT9iiHA7I/AAAAAAAADR0/HUMSzZuoDUg/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-18.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More negatives.... </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lomKMzj3zlE/UgKT85H2G_I/AAAAAAAADRs/MwSLkGqvgfU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lomKMzj3zlE/UgKT85H2G_I/AAAAAAAADRs/MwSLkGqvgfU/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-19.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Intercom system&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I6_zWetk49k/UgKUUvyD8NI/AAAAAAAADSk/GLCytFLzi5M/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I6_zWetk49k/UgKUUvyD8NI/AAAAAAAADSk/GLCytFLzi5M/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-23.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span> </div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DGD4k8H16FI/UgKUTEsCEsI/AAAAAAAADSc/J-TOvllAOyU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DGD4k8H16FI/UgKUTEsCEsI/AAAAAAAADSc/J-TOvllAOyU/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-24.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Printing apparatus </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cg2YrFBXpfc/UgKUWUd-BUI/AAAAAAAADSs/o12IRkmYFmI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cg2YrFBXpfc/UgKUWUd-BUI/AAAAAAAADSs/o12IRkmYFmI/s400/Photo_Palace_Beach_House_-25.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Carbon Ark Light! </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HI-6FJT02vI/UgKU63a-syI/AAAAAAAADT0/pr5o5Y0pEWE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Beach_house_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HI-6FJT02vI/UgKU63a-syI/AAAAAAAADT0/pr5o5Y0pEWE/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Beach_house_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Basement shot by Rob McElroy&nbsp; </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a0jCYT9KsQ4/UgKU-yhfifI/AAAAAAAADUE/Npxuw9QY0uc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Beach_house_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a0jCYT9KsQ4/UgKU-yhfifI/AAAAAAAADUE/Npxuw9QY0uc/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Beach_house_2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can tell how I'm feeling by the look in my eyes. This was taken in the vault. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i_fzo-xr80E/UgKU_-qApCI/AAAAAAAADUM/EPXiPwuP8bg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Beach_house_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i_fzo-xr80E/UgKU_-qApCI/AAAAAAAADUM/EPXiPwuP8bg/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Beach_house_3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">More negative boxes... </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The entire house is in desperate need of major repair and, as you can probably tell, the collection of negatives is in need of preservation work... Rob promised the owner to help her out with sorting and evaluating all the photo-related items and I believe he will do the absolute best job possible and will honor this treasure-trove to the utmost highest degree.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; We did not leave the house until 11pm and we cold have been there all night if the owner didn't have prior commitments.&nbsp; Rob didn't even realize that it was 11 and when I alerted him of the fact he looked extremely surprised and alarmed - we got back to his place to find quite a few worried emails from his girlfriend...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;That night I dreamed of rusty cameras...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next day we had were invited to view a photo exhibit in a great old industrial building called High-Temp Fabrications.&nbsp; Before then Rob and I took Gilli-the-Gillig to an extraordinarily important location as far as history of photography is concerned so I could make a tintype of it.&nbsp;&nbsp; The <a href="http://www.albrightknox.org/" target="_blank">Albright-Knox Art Gallery</a>, located in Buffalo, was a place where in 1910 Alfred Stieglitz held his biggest exhibition of photography.&nbsp; The entire museum was cleared of all other work and all the rooms were devoted solely to photography as an art form.&nbsp; It is said that this was the first time that the medium of photography was truly recognized as an art form and honored as such.&nbsp; The show was mostly by invitation, but there was also an open entry section.&nbsp; It felt fantastic to step in front of this palace of the arts and I made the following plate in front of it and the second one across the street at a lovely park designed by the same urban planner who designed Central Park in NYC - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted" title="Frederick Law Olmsted">Frederick Law Olmsted</a></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kRr8ye7s7I4/UgKb7I5VcFI/AAAAAAAADUo/22iZJwpaLrI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kRr8ye7s7I4/UgKb7I5VcFI/AAAAAAAADUo/22iZJwpaLrI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_9.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VsYQcCNqE_4/UgKb65NksVI/AAAAAAAADUk/WSj5A5YfR54/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VsYQcCNqE_4/UgKb65NksVI/AAAAAAAADUk/WSj5A5YfR54/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Buffalo_NY_8.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; Later that night Rob was kind enough to dig out the original catalog for the 1910 exhibit and I thumbed through it with overwhelming trepidation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--QfJ5KBbFXw/UgKdmFx_70I/AAAAAAAADVY/7ufcqcHorpo/s1600/Albright_Knox_Catalog1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--QfJ5KBbFXw/UgKdmFx_70I/AAAAAAAADVY/7ufcqcHorpo/s400/Albright_Knox_Catalog1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xD2e-BO0TyQ/UgKdomtsRWI/AAAAAAAADVg/LThyDo1-Db0/s1600/Albright_Knox_Catalog2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xD2e-BO0TyQ/UgKdomtsRWI/AAAAAAAADVg/LThyDo1-Db0/s400/Albright_Knox_Catalog2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Before that though we did head over to the show at High-Temp and enjoyed a great time talking to the artists and browsing the art.&nbsp; I can't believe I didn't take a shot of the darkened second room that had a corridor of translucent fabric suspended from the ceiling on the mack of which was projected a slide show from multiple old-school Kodak projectors.&nbsp; There were at least 6-7 projectors going all at once and the sound of them clicking away was a sweet photographic aria to my ears.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CVp-pscFI5E/UgKc52tkuII/AAAAAAAADVE/pVZGibrLwhw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_NY_Hightemp_Faborications_Show-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CVp-pscFI5E/UgKc52tkuII/AAAAAAAADVE/pVZGibrLwhw/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_NY_Hightemp_Faborications_Show-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IMBVeRPxiMg/UgKc9QmiKMI/AAAAAAAADVQ/VMFY1HTKmFU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_NY_Hightemp_Faborications_Show.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IMBVeRPxiMg/UgKc9QmiKMI/AAAAAAAADVQ/VMFY1HTKmFU/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_NY_Hightemp_Faborications_Show.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While we were at the show a couple of people from <a href="http://www.burchfieldpenney.org/" target="_blank">Burchfield-Penny Art Center</a> stopped by for a visit.&nbsp; The director is Tony Bannon (he was at Burchfield-Penny before, then left to direct the George Eastman House and now is back at Burchfield-Penny) and the chief curator Jeff Propeck.&nbsp; After they enjoyed the show we wend down to the bus and I showed them some of my works.&nbsp; They seemed please with what was shown and even hinted at purchasing a couple of plates in the future, the prospect of which was a true thrill to hear.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KjkKpZMW2JM/UgO7IvcBSZI/AAAAAAAADno/_YBF2ZgGWF4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Bus_Visit_Burchfield_Penny_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KjkKpZMW2JM/UgO7IvcBSZI/AAAAAAAADno/_YBF2ZgGWF4/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Bus_Visit_Burchfield_Penny_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here they are looking at some of my old prints.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I look concerned because I know that this is not a coherent body of work being shown...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vRsNTiiTdRM/UgO8iQCqX7I/AAAAAAAADn4/d6BEQr0qPBc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Bus_Visit_Burchfield_Penny_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vRsNTiiTdRM/UgO8iQCqX7I/AAAAAAAADn4/d6BEQr0qPBc/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Bus_Visit_Burchfield_Penny_.jpg" width="265" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tintypes really sparked an interest though and I relaxed a bit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; We had to return upstairs to the gallery and on the way back down shared the elevator with a group of enthusiastic young folks who actually do a great thing by taking in all the unwanted props after the Fashion Week in NYC and re-purpose, reuse and recycle it.&nbsp; They were invited to come on the bus and were shown the history display in a more random order than I usually like to present it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7H8DW2kok7s/UgO7HCmU2uI/AAAAAAAADng/P9F-2xGMlU8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Bus_Visit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7H8DW2kok7s/UgO7HCmU2uI/AAAAAAAADng/P9F-2xGMlU8/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Bus_Visit.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After leaving the High-Temp building Rob quickly took me by the building that still has the last of the original skylight studios in Buffalo.&nbsp; What an amazing structure...&nbsp; I would LOVE to rent it, but it's $5K a month!&nbsp; Looking at it did however rekindle my long-time desire to build one of these for myself in San Diego and I'll start working on the logistics of that project when I get back there.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rHoa0kAcawk/UgKgv-a7OqI/AAAAAAAADVw/ZdU-5yNBiP8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Skylight_Studio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rHoa0kAcawk/UgKgv-a7OqI/AAAAAAAADVw/ZdU-5yNBiP8/s400/Photo_Palace_Buffalo_Skylight_Studio.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; One of the people who visited the bus at Delaware Camera was Lauren Trent - educational director of <a href="http://www.cepagallery.org/index.html" target="_blank">CEPA</a>.&nbsp; She expressed interest in my mission and the plates I was producing, so Rob and I stopped by there to see the facilities and to talk with Lauren.&nbsp; CEPA is located in a gorgeous old building downtown Buffalo and has plentiful exhibition spaces currently filled with excellent mural prints done digitally from scanned 8x10 negatives.&nbsp; They also have a rental darkroom and a computer lab where they conduct classes.&nbsp; Lauren was happy to show us around and we discussed a possibility of showing the work I'm amassing right now in the future, which would be pretty darn neat.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pwsaB9nn1sM/UgKhAoPBZcI/AAAAAAAADWM/kT-hGeo1p6s/s1600/Photo_Palace_CEPA-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pwsaB9nn1sM/UgKhAoPBZcI/AAAAAAAADWM/kT-hGeo1p6s/s400/Photo_Palace_CEPA-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KE6L6jbW5Qs/UgKhAjF07EI/AAAAAAAADWI/y2FM_Ql3WBw/s1600/Photo_Palace_CEPA-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KE6L6jbW5Qs/UgKhAjF07EI/AAAAAAAADWI/y2FM_Ql3WBw/s400/Photo_Palace_CEPA-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Darkroom with Rob at one of the enlargers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">23c Besselers - a staple of any rental space! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ApWq9K1_Uos/UgKhC0mCRrI/AAAAAAAADWU/ZVYp5eCLiuw/s1600/Photo_Palace_CEPA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ApWq9K1_Uos/UgKhC0mCRrI/AAAAAAAADWU/ZVYp5eCLiuw/s400/Photo_Palace_CEPA.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Macs in the digital lab - excellent! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tX4QLgHaZO4/UgPT7IeZwLI/AAAAAAAADz8/KIOtZ1dr3ZU/s1600/Photo_Palace_CEPA-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tX4QLgHaZO4/UgPT7IeZwLI/AAAAAAAADz8/KIOtZ1dr3ZU/s400/Photo_Palace_CEPA-4.jpg" width="370" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In one of the exhibition hallways with Lauren </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="goog_666861472">&nbsp;Of course I could write a whole separate vlog entry on the marvels of Rod McElroys studio/office/house and the plethora of curiosities that surround whoever steps in there....&nbsp; It's really too much to take in though, so I'll just post this picture of an autochrome in an original presentation form - back-lit over a mirror!&nbsp; If you ever get a chance to behold a real autochrome you'll know what I'm talking about when I say that they have a real presence, but to actually see one in an original casing is a rarity beyond anything I could have hoped for.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-roQO1kFLd48/UgO_Ag2n8eI/AAAAAAAADoE/REHxN4I5OoI/s1600/Photo_Palace_at_Robs_1-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-roQO1kFLd48/UgO_Ag2n8eI/AAAAAAAADoE/REHxN4I5OoI/s400/Photo_Palace_at_Robs_1-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next morning I departed Buffalo and was on the way to Dundee for <a href="http://www.johncoffer.com/" target="_blank">John Coffer's 2013 Wet Plate Jamboree.</a>&nbsp; John Coffer is the man who in 1970s took upon himself a mission of bringing back the process of making wet plate images out of complete obscurity.&nbsp; From what I understand at that time the process was completely forgotten, chemistry was unavailable, no modern manuals existed and not a single soul in the world was making tintypes and ambrotypes.&nbsp; After all, why would one want to do that when you could buy dry film and make images faster, cheaper, easier....?&nbsp; Sounds familiar?&nbsp; Sorta like the digital wave right now...&nbsp; Well, John was working in Florida at the time and somehow or another the idea of making collodion images got hold of him so strong that he dropped out of regular societal rat race.&nbsp; He got a horse (named Brownie) and a covered wagon and started traveling the country in much the same way that 19th century photographers did.&nbsp; It took him years to come upon a break-through that presented itself in a form of an old hand-written manual written by a photographer and stored in the archives of a historic society in Oregon.&nbsp; From that manual John extracted the information needed to begin the process of revitalization of this marvelous technique.&nbsp; Now you can bet that if you took a workshop in wet plate photography you can trace back the lineage of teachers back to Mr. Coffer.&nbsp; I know people who have taught themselves this process using just his manual, which most simply refer to as The Bible.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; Now John lives on a farm just south of the village of Dundee and calls it 'Camp Tintype'.&nbsp; He has no electricity (save for an emergency generator and a solar/wind power station that charges his electric bike) and draws water from a well.&nbsp; From ground-up he built a beautiful little cabin&nbsp; that is pictured in one of my tintypes below.&nbsp; He has chickens (from which he procures delicious eggs that are also useful in albumen printing), cows, horses and a sweet garden.&nbsp; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Every year John holds a Wet Plate Jamboree - for a few days tintypists from all over the country and beyond gather at Camp Tintype to make images, share their knowledge and just to relax and get away from the hustle and bustle of their every day lives.&nbsp; I heard about this event and sent John a post card requesting permission to come by.&nbsp; As I am traveling myself I had to ask him to send his reply to my friend in Rhode Island, which he did in&nbsp; form of a kind hand-written letter complete with a map and a picture of one of his chickens as letterhead.&nbsp; He mentioned that I could arrive as early as Thursday and I jumped at that opportunity.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On the way there I did try to actually write up this blog post,.&nbsp; After working on it for a few hours in a coffee shop in the town of Geneva I realized that there was no way that this can be accomplished and I was too anxious to get to John's...&nbsp; Upon arriving there I immediately fell in love with the setting of the simple farm life.&nbsp; Though I have always been a city boy, I can totally see myself living like John does and enjoying it immensely.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most folks were not there yet, so I got a prime parking spot for Gilli.&nbsp; The sun was going down, so after a quick hello I made two images and by the time they were done it was time for bed (plus it took me a total of 5 hours to drive there from Buffalo and driving the bus for that long is pretty exhausting).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next day people started arriving and setting up their dark boxes, rolling out an unfolding tripods and camera stands, mixing chemistry and unveiling their cameras.&nbsp; All in all there were probably 30+ artists who came to Camp Tintype this year.&nbsp; I saw cameras and lenses that I have never seen before, learned techniques that I didn't think existed, watched people pour their plates, made lots of new friends and I think I had almost everyone in attendance take a tour of The Photo Palace Bus.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Activities included a daguerreotype demo by <a href="http://www.nwgibbons.com/" target="_blank">Nate Gibbons</a>, a wonderful feast on Saturday hosted by Central Cafe of Dundee, a raffle for all sorts of goodies and much more that I probably am not recalling now.&nbsp; One of the highlights was John asking me if Gilli-the-Gillig could serve as the backdrop for the annual group photo - what an honor! Also a really great 11x11in clear glass ambrotype was done of me standing in the doorway of The Photo Palace Bus.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; My visit was complete with a couple of first-for-me experiences such as firing my first ever gun (a black powder replica of a 1800s revolver) and a ride on a 1923 Model T Ford with John Coffer himself at the wheel.&nbsp; I had an absolutely fantastic time and was really sad that it had to come to an end come Sunday.&nbsp; Luckily I didn't have to be anywhere in a hurry, so I decided to stick around till Monday.&nbsp; I did see that John had a Magic Lantern in possession and mentioned to one of the campers something about my Russian slide collection and that I too had a Lantern on board.&nbsp; Apparently the word got to John and right as I was wrapping everything up on Monday I was asked to stay for one more night and participate in a dual Lantern show - that was the cherry on top of the entire experience.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Below are some of the digital images I took at Camp Tintype followed by the tintypes I made there.&nbsp; Enjoy!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4Cmlj4TdXNo/UgPLEfMqdqI/AAAAAAAADrg/Fo-riW2ijh4/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4Cmlj4TdXNo/UgPLEfMqdqI/AAAAAAAADrg/Fo-riW2ijh4/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-18.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Entrance to Camp Tintype</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rwyx3Kg62FI/UgPN98xKzfI/AAAAAAAADwA/P0i6-vPCG4c/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rwyx3Kg62FI/UgPN98xKzfI/AAAAAAAADwA/P0i6-vPCG4c/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Coffer riding on The Photo Palace Bus</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pAoRD7Hu1UM/UgPKs1Z97_I/AAAAAAAADrA/R0ek6XD28Yk/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-15-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pAoRD7Hu1UM/UgPKs1Z97_I/AAAAAAAADrA/R0ek6XD28Yk/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-15-4.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gilli parked for the first night</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D-125y1DOcI/UgPLnr8hNPI/AAAAAAAADso/DCxsyi-uac4/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D-125y1DOcI/UgPLnr8hNPI/AAAAAAAADso/DCxsyi-uac4/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-REfnNte6jlw/UgPNaaku8tI/AAAAAAAADvQ/lCn6SwEI3Ig/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-7-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-REfnNte6jlw/UgPNaaku8tI/AAAAAAAADvQ/lCn6SwEI3Ig/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-7-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cDzfuwkfwB0/UgPL9lo12JI/AAAAAAAADtI/830Ma7Ovz7I/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cDzfuwkfwB0/UgPL9lo12JI/AAAAAAAADtI/830Ma7Ovz7I/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-25.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Various views around the farm</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NdC_D2WSYVE/UgPNuRv7BYI/AAAAAAAADvo/rg1o09wfy5w/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NdC_D2WSYVE/UgPNuRv7BYI/AAAAAAAADvo/rg1o09wfy5w/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-8.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Photographic Van that John Traveled around the country with </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Various setups and photographers in progress of working on images</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DGpklmr9Um4/UgPKa7sP92I/AAAAAAAADqg/bGN8qFOVSmk/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-16-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DGpklmr9Um4/UgPKa7sP92I/AAAAAAAADqg/bGN8qFOVSmk/s320/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-16-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xrdqToDxUrs/UgPK0tTTN0I/AAAAAAAADrI/A9m8t15gHiA/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-17-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xrdqToDxUrs/UgPK0tTTN0I/AAAAAAAADrI/A9m8t15gHiA/s320/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-17-2.jpg" width="320" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plenty of gunfire was heard throughout the weekend,&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">all sorts of vintage and replica guns were used </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EyLZGyVaBUs/UgPL8SgCr_I/AAAAAAAADtA/LtK7wrF4ZNA/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-3-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EyLZGyVaBUs/UgPL8SgCr_I/AAAAAAAADtA/LtK7wrF4ZNA/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-3-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t8aG_xVpXFY/UgPLSpcJ3jI/AAAAAAAADr4/xT3tIrZn0x4/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-2-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t8aG_xVpXFY/UgPLSpcJ3jI/AAAAAAAADr4/xT3tIrZn0x4/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-2-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RmAqTTkTP1o/UgPMaMiy-fI/AAAAAAAADtw/1PhojavZpt0/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-4-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RmAqTTkTP1o/UgPMaMiy-fI/AAAAAAAADtw/1PhojavZpt0/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-4-3.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nate Gibbons demonstrating the making of a daguerreotype</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zdIDDTzqVXY/UgPNKNpIGTI/AAAAAAAADu4/c4GPM1Z_ge0/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-6-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zdIDDTzqVXY/UgPNKNpIGTI/AAAAAAAADu4/c4GPM1Z_ge0/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-6-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-or-adTmZI0E/UgPNT6gOVXI/AAAAAAAADvI/b62hTi4inQk/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-7-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-or-adTmZI0E/UgPNT6gOVXI/AAAAAAAADvI/b62hTi4inQk/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-7-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Sb_fnyJaos/UgPNdhoK_8I/AAAAAAAADvY/6kI6McTmbd4/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-8-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Sb_fnyJaos/UgPNdhoK_8I/AAAAAAAADvY/6kI6McTmbd4/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-8-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uhGZORCOl6g/UgPNu8LeEaI/AAAAAAAADvw/hi2d5PVqrUU/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-9-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uhGZORCOl6g/UgPNu8LeEaI/AAAAAAAADvw/hi2d5PVqrUU/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-9-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Coffer giving people rides on his Model T Ford - what a thrill!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oW0zNfnxeB8/UgPLvKV-MzI/AAAAAAAADsw/FWhwX5hMLbg/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oW0zNfnxeB8/UgPLvKV-MzI/AAAAAAAADsw/FWhwX5hMLbg/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-23.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The raffle in progress&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1l0fIdFb24/UgPM-DZOEkI/AAAAAAAADuk/edRmBHmppg0/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-6-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A1l0fIdFb24/UgPM-DZOEkI/AAAAAAAADuk/edRmBHmppg0/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-6-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Really awesome camera - I don't think it got sold, but it is a HOT deal folks!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$2800 for an 8x10 with holder, reducing back and a lens with a full set of stops!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write to John and work out a shipping deal....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l2HTiCa51Hg/UgPLgTcAblI/AAAAAAAADsY/zaBlBoe4mM8/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l2HTiCa51Hg/UgPLgTcAblI/AAAAAAAADsY/zaBlBoe4mM8/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-20.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People gathered around Gilli for the group shot</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rAEi7J5WCek/UgPLnREGO6I/AAAAAAAADsg/ql1N1V-rhag/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rAEi7J5WCek/UgPLnREGO6I/AAAAAAAADsg/ql1N1V-rhag/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-22.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">35mm microtype of the moment by Greg Martin </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nQt-4JPP6OA/UgPKg1a3w-I/AAAAAAAADqo/o8XMx7yXcCM/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-16-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nQt-4JPP6OA/UgPKg1a3w-I/AAAAAAAADqo/o8XMx7yXcCM/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-16-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Coffer's 8x10 of the group shot,&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">there will be a much better copy of this on his website soon </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1lY2uU_AKfE/UgPK5gG5xVI/AAAAAAAADrY/j3tiBOjUD2A/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-17-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1lY2uU_AKfE/UgPK5gG5xVI/AAAAAAAADrY/j3tiBOjUD2A/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-17-3.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A delicious dinner cooked for me on board the palace,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the stove has not been fired up in 13 months prior to this! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rSui6duPk4I/UgPMOlQpL9I/AAAAAAAADtc/GQGZmKrtr38/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-3-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rSui6duPk4I/UgPMOlQpL9I/AAAAAAAADtc/GQGZmKrtr38/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-3-4.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John and his Magic Lantern </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3fnObDRR-zI/UgPK1fFYR6I/AAAAAAAADrQ/f6Fvmu_mCqg/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-17-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3fnObDRR-zI/UgPK1fFYR6I/AAAAAAAADrQ/f6Fvmu_mCqg/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-17-4.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Monday night Lantern Show in progress </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>TINTYPES MADE BY ME AT CAMP TINTYPE:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zsPPgf7tTGM/UgPJ8SyyM8I/AAAAAAAADqA/iiVsNlZLVak/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-14-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zsPPgf7tTGM/UgPJ8SyyM8I/AAAAAAAADqA/iiVsNlZLVak/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-14-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5 </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tyWyyEOKBE0/UgPJoKX8bhI/AAAAAAAADpg/xFNAFL3QeTo/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-13-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tyWyyEOKBE0/UgPJoKX8bhI/AAAAAAAADpg/xFNAFL3QeTo/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-13-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--xxI1rA0aJs/UgPM91SnjhI/AAAAAAAADuo/oW6sxcZZFg8/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--xxI1rA0aJs/UgPM91SnjhI/AAAAAAAADuo/oW6sxcZZFg8/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-5.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9p684WBnZh8/UgPMrHG42oI/AAAAAAAADuA/2p5LXDvIIhk/s1600/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9p684WBnZh8/UgPMrHG42oI/AAAAAAAADuA/2p5LXDvIIhk/s400/Photo_Palace_John_Coffer_Tintype_Jamboree-4.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gqcOXlrNHIk/UgPOcCfgnXI/AAAAAAAADxA/CALoOYvbZUY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-2-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gqcOXlrNHIk/UgPOcCfgnXI/AAAAAAAADxA/CALoOYvbZUY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-2-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7.5x9.5 </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CBmo8nFmwaM/UgPOkmt2Q1I/AAAAAAAADxQ/nZEAnEd5vJ4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-2-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CBmo8nFmwaM/UgPOkmt2Q1I/AAAAAAAADxQ/nZEAnEd5vJ4/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-2-4.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-808pCOK6oYs/UgPOfaD5j9I/AAAAAAAADxI/BZnTa9a9gJM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-808pCOK6oYs/UgPOfaD5j9I/AAAAAAAADxI/BZnTa9a9gJM/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x6 </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D4ktnIpQCVw/UgPOp4ac29I/AAAAAAAADxg/KwO7heqaBPM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-3-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D4ktnIpQCVw/UgPOp4ac29I/AAAAAAAADxg/KwO7heqaBPM/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-3-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7.5x9.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tamgV32INeA/UgPO_674hhI/AAAAAAAADyA/XGpKJ-ObODY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-4-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tamgV32INeA/UgPO_674hhI/AAAAAAAADyA/XGpKJ-ObODY/s320/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-4-3.jpg" width="320" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7.5x9.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dr9x62gLboI/UgPO64R89eI/AAAAAAAADx4/HkLgslF23Bg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-4-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dr9x62gLboI/UgPO64R89eI/AAAAAAAADx4/HkLgslF23Bg/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-4-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YTXz7FTYY-8/UgPO1MBEVJI/AAAAAAAADxw/EMmctd1A3-k/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YTXz7FTYY-8/UgPO1MBEVJI/AAAAAAAADxw/EMmctd1A3-k/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-3.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x6 </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FyUOArjbkKA/UgPOpcQT9cI/AAAAAAAADxY/qHbeXoPJvw0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-3-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FyUOArjbkKA/UgPOpcQT9cI/AAAAAAAADxY/qHbeXoPJvw0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-3-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7.5x9.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nWZK1JP-eWs/UgPPHv3HjNI/AAAAAAAADyI/J7ZoPHFMzss/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-4-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nWZK1JP-eWs/UgPPHv3HjNI/AAAAAAAADyI/J7ZoPHFMzss/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-4-4.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_6SeFjk31Zg/UgPPI4b43jI/AAAAAAAADyU/hE8H873Iq_s/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_6SeFjk31Zg/UgPPI4b43jI/AAAAAAAADyU/hE8H873Iq_s/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-4.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; (VERY challenging to make this one...)</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R85HrmMlIVg/UgPPIzSiLcI/AAAAAAAADyY/F9rJmqd3TbI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-5-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R85HrmMlIVg/UgPPIzSiLcI/AAAAAAAADyY/F9rJmqd3TbI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-5-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x6 Made by request for Shane Balkowitch </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DAbmT-fuTV8/UgPPS0SlDYI/AAAAAAAADyg/8_j2Xn9wQTg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DAbmT-fuTV8/UgPPS0SlDYI/AAAAAAAADyg/8_j2Xn9wQTg/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-5.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x6 </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oBQ8nXFJNvM/UgPPbD1z3ZI/AAAAAAAADyw/_EyCsZxt60o/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-6-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oBQ8nXFJNvM/UgPPbD1z3ZI/AAAAAAAADyw/_EyCsZxt60o/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-6-2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NQYcyXo0nt0/UgPPtk6V3II/AAAAAAAADzQ/2g16dXIs0Qc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-8-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NQYcyXo0nt0/UgPPtk6V3II/AAAAAAAADzQ/2g16dXIs0Qc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-8-2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ryF8CyubG3k/UgPPlHpKs3I/AAAAAAAADzE/UrsR1pXOdNQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ryF8CyubG3k/UgPPlHpKs3I/AAAAAAAADzE/UrsR1pXOdNQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-7.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x6 </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p_egES_jdLA/UgPPkz97rQI/AAAAAAAADzI/Th2d2JAvAnY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-7-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p_egES_jdLA/UgPPkz97rQI/AAAAAAAADzI/Th2d2JAvAnY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-7-2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Cw9RUNyk2o/UgPPf_HPZrI/AAAAAAAADy4/LpoTmowV8wA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Cw9RUNyk2o/UgPPf_HPZrI/AAAAAAAADy4/LpoTmowV8wA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-6.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-87183DCT8cM/UgPPv49CHsI/AAAAAAAADzY/E5pJwGI973I/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-87183DCT8cM/UgPPv49CHsI/AAAAAAAADzY/E5pJwGI973I/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-8.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x6 </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s4TZoQswMvk/UgPP41bzg8I/AAAAAAAADzs/14izDOaF8fI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s4TZoQswMvk/UgPP41bzg8I/AAAAAAAADzs/14izDOaF8fI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-9.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x6 </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ObK0mmBuG4/UgPPzWArCyI/AAAAAAAADzg/eEZFCbAYV1A/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-9-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ObK0mmBuG4/UgPPzWArCyI/AAAAAAAADzg/eEZFCbAYV1A/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-9-2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-42I9L2mwMoI/UgPOJ0yS0MI/AAAAAAAADwY/pgsY6KcCqnU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-10-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-42I9L2mwMoI/UgPOJ0yS0MI/AAAAAAAADwY/pgsY6KcCqnU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-10-2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-38h4OxFTizE/UgPOORY2tFI/AAAAAAAADwg/xooBsIjOkdY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-38h4OxFTizE/UgPOORY2tFI/AAAAAAAADwg/xooBsIjOkdY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-11.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7.5x9.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Y3dXdtG_C4/UgPOO6kvzoI/AAAAAAAADwo/9sqI9z47wRo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Y3dXdtG_C4/UgPOO6kvzoI/AAAAAAAADwo/9sqI9z47wRo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-10.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7.5x9.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTQWNqQr0lM/UgPP45KQ5bI/AAAAAAAADzw/AqDFeed21kA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTQWNqQr0lM/UgPP45KQ5bI/AAAAAAAADzw/AqDFeed21kA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x6 </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f63BXkCVc3Q/UgPOVomel2I/AAAAAAAADww/-DKcpaPtyS8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f63BXkCVc3Q/UgPOVomel2I/AAAAAAAADww/-DKcpaPtyS8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_John_Coffer_Jamboree-12.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.5x4.5&nbsp; </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I left Camp Tintype on Tuesday morning with a strong feeling that I need to come back every year.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Really needing to relax for a bit I drove straight to Albany area where I had an invitation from Tim Massie to stay at his home when I'm in the area and I am not one to pass up such a generous offer.&nbsp; I got to Tim's in the evening and was greeted by him along with his wife and two lovely children.&nbsp; Apparently Tim saw my post in Film Shooters group on Facebook, so I was really surprised to hear that although he had been shooting film for a number of years now, he has never developed his own roll of film.&nbsp; Well, now there was a darkroom parked at his place and there was no excuse!&nbsp; I quickly transformed the back of the bus back into a gelatin silver working environment, some Rodinal was mixed up and and two rolls of film were developed.&nbsp; Tim did great working with stainless steel tanks of both 35mm and 120 format and I saw the same flicker in his eyes that I usually see when people first view the wet negative images of their first hand-processed roll.&nbsp; I love that moment!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While developing film, Tim told me of a place in Troy called <a href="http://www.photocentertroy.org/" target="_blank">Photo Center</a> that was run by Nicholas Argyros and said that I simply must meet him and see his creation.&nbsp; Next day after Tim got back from work we took the bus over to Troy and were met by an extraordinarily nice owner of Photo Center.&nbsp; Nicholas has a true passion for vintage photography and has a tremendous collection of everything associated with image-making - cameras, darkroom stuff, Magic Lanterns, books... Even while waiting for him outside of the place and looking through the window pictured below I could imagine the wonderful smell of old equipment that was sure to greet us upon entry.&nbsp; Sure enough - that smell of old cameras lingered in the air on all three floors of the 110 year old building.&nbsp; Photo Center is an organization that offers it's members use of a darkroom (which I didn't see because it's located in a different building), various activities and classes, member shows and even the use of the 5000+ item photographic library in which the owner is pictured below as well.&nbsp; After a tour of the place, which as far as I'm concerned could have lasted a week and I would have been still enjoying it, it was time to take a look at The Photo Palace Bus and I think it and the work I showed left a memorable impression.&nbsp; Then Nicholas took me to dinner and we conversed about the passion we both shared.&nbsp; As we were leaving the local restaurant Nicholas actually expressed interest in purchasing some of my work, so we headed back to the bus and he picked out two tintypes - one of a TLR Argus that I had done back in San Diego and one of the shots from Montana of an abandoned grain elevator.&nbsp; I was thrilled not only to have my work enter into another private collection, but to also have some funds for another tank of gas and then some.&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Here are some images that I took during that memorable visit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7IrTGjRWwU/UgPiWH5A2rI/AAAAAAAAD0s/XyIoVnG_Up4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7IrTGjRWwU/UgPiWH5A2rI/AAAAAAAAD0s/XyIoVnG_Up4/s400/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Looking in through the front window </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lMAHfMqlv0M/UgPiLP0ZvOI/AAAAAAAAD0U/sFfeZ6jNLe4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lMAHfMqlv0M/UgPiLP0ZvOI/AAAAAAAAD0U/sFfeZ6jNLe4/s400/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center-2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Camera case - not even all of one case here.... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EhMD5hv8Dig/UgPiF6boweI/AAAAAAAAD0M/jikA-Z8eneE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EhMD5hv8Dig/UgPiF6boweI/AAAAAAAAD0M/jikA-Z8eneE/s400/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center-3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lovely row of projection devices including Magic Lanterns and early movie projectors </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tc2offGWmwo/UgPiRar-7XI/AAAAAAAAD0c/1Z-O7Rm9ki0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tc2offGWmwo/UgPiRar-7XI/AAAAAAAAD0c/1Z-O7Rm9ki0/s400/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center-5.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...... ! ..... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJfKxdA5EzU/UgPiVBWEKjI/AAAAAAAAD0k/8hVxDf1vHpA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJfKxdA5EzU/UgPiVBWEKjI/AAAAAAAAD0k/8hVxDf1vHpA/s400/Photo_Palace_Troy_Photo_Center-6.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nicholas Argyros and about 1/4 of the library behind him </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now it is Thursday and I've been working on this update for way too long.&nbsp; If it doesn't get at least 1000 hits I will be sorely disappointed - so help me out, and share this wherever you can!&nbsp; Actually I just checked and as far as word count goes there is a longer update from last year, but as far as image count plus word count this one beats it by far.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton&nbsp; </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/08/biggest-update-ever-buffalo-wet-plate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-6976429605576934054Sat, 27 Jul 2013 06:55:00 +00002013-07-26T23:55:46.610-07:00100th Post!<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Wow - can't believe this is an update #100 for this blog!&nbsp; I can't describe how cool it is to be able to do this and how thankful I am to those of you who have followed this blog from the start.&nbsp; I am going to have to try to put these updated up a little more frequently because at this pace too many memories build up and I end up writing too long of posts, it takes too long and also I bet I miss some stuff, which is unfortunate.&nbsp; So, with that in mind - here we go on the 100th update!</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Last update was written from Minnesota and I was planning on going to Madison WI.&nbsp; I decided to avoid being in the city since it is no fun to be in one while driving a 35ft bus with no particular destination - streets get narrow fast and plus the traffic drives me nuts.&nbsp; Instead I took a smaller highway and headed to Winona MN.&nbsp; On the way there I made this image - the only one for July 21st.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ls8PmwmMeLI/UfMu8eMc60I/AAAAAAAADB0/zzuIpAr_FMU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_East_Of+_Rochester_MN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ls8PmwmMeLI/UfMu8eMc60I/AAAAAAAADB0/zzuIpAr_FMU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_East_Of+_Rochester_MN.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As I mentioned above - I need to post these updated more often because according to my Facebook update on July 22nd at about 1pm I made these images of the lock upon the mighty Mississippi, but the timeline somehow doesn't make sense because I know that I got to Winona on the night of the 21st and these were made before that...&nbsp; So much happens I can't keep my dates straight - sorry.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p5f7rc2vPiQ/UfMxbDQy8GI/AAAAAAAADCE/b5icHjPdUqY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Mississippi_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p5f7rc2vPiQ/UfMxbDQy8GI/AAAAAAAADCE/b5icHjPdUqY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Mississippi_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-55rGzS3IAos/UfMxbhXSePI/AAAAAAAADCM/fLs2MXSE_h0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Mississippi_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-55rGzS3IAos/UfMxbhXSePI/AAAAAAAADCM/fLs2MXSE_h0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Mississippi_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; I do remember that I made it to Winona at night and found a nice bar where to get a pint of local brew.&nbsp; The bar happened to have been owned by a Ukrainian guy and so we had a nice little chat.&nbsp; Well, I was mostly talking to his lovely fiance, who was helping him behind the bar, but it was nice nonetheless.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning I drove to an island in the middle of the river to get some shots of the floating houses that someone at the bar recommended I check out.&nbsp; They were truly unique and I spent quite a good amount of time shooting these unique structures.&nbsp; Apparently no new ones are allowed to be built, so there's a finite number of these odd flotillas.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iG4NVyNNRoo/UfMy93mQMfI/AAAAAAAADCk/pDxtlSOoJQQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iG4NVyNNRoo/UfMy93mQMfI/AAAAAAAADCk/pDxtlSOoJQQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ORiOPQ9UJQ/UfMzAf8T2VI/AAAAAAAADCs/8Od_RLVwuAk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ORiOPQ9UJQ/UfMzAf8T2VI/AAAAAAAADCs/8Od_RLVwuAk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_3.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_MV7gJnd0rY/UfMy8zaEAsI/AAAAAAAADCc/pgzs-_kWN2Q/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_MV7gJnd0rY/UfMy8zaEAsI/AAAAAAAADCc/pgzs-_kWN2Q/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While on the island I saw a beautiful lady by the name of Elena, who occupied one of the structures. We made conversation and that resulted in me doing one more plate.&nbsp; Unfortunately she was sitting on a floating platform and her dogs were playing next to her and that resulted in a rather blurry image.&nbsp; It wasn't so bad that I wanted to scratch it out, but it wasn't up to the standards of the collections, so I decided to leave it for the model.&nbsp; I also showed her how the plates were prepared and processed and she said that she happens to be a model and works sometimes with a photographer in La Crosse WI who has done some wet plate images of her in the past.&nbsp; I was excited to hear that and asked her for directions to his studio, which she gladly provided, so my next destination was clear.&nbsp; Before setting off from Winona I did go back into town and made these two plates by the light of the setting sun.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ld9c2zpGs0M/UfMzGhT_zAI/AAAAAAAADC0/2tJ1in1rvJo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_Winona_MN_1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ld9c2zpGs0M/UfMzGhT_zAI/AAAAAAAADC0/2tJ1in1rvJo/s320/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_Winona_MN_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vcLYhrRFlEQ/UfMzIAwfh4I/AAAAAAAADC8/TftezgXuzgQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_Winona_MN_2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vcLYhrRFlEQ/UfMzIAwfh4I/AAAAAAAADC8/TftezgXuzgQ/s320/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Latsch_Island_Winona_MN_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; La Crosse is not too far from Winona and so I was able to get there pretty quickly and spent the night at a local rest area.&nbsp; In the morning I looked up directions given to me by Elena and drove over to the studio.&nbsp; The sign on the closed door read that the gallery/studio was 'open by appointment and chance' (love that sign!).&nbsp; I thought to myself "what are the chances of me making an appointment for right now?"&nbsp; I called the number provided on the sign and spoke with the owner - David Bass.&nbsp; He was at his regular job, but sounded very excited by me showing up and agreed to meet me on his lunch break and show me the space.&nbsp; I was happy with that arrangement and went to get lunch myself.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; David showed up right on time and we had a great time, though it was short due to his work commitments. <a href="http://www.sg1311.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">SG1311</a> is a space he opened up to the public after the original owner (a painter by the name of Willian Vafeas) passed away in 2011.&nbsp; Now David shows a lot of local artists there, does photography right in that space and shows the wonderful works of Mr. Vafeas as well.&nbsp; David has made tintypes in the past, however he confessed to me that he hasn't done them for a while, but does hope to dig up all the equipment and get back into it soon.&nbsp; I truly hope that he finds time to do that and to see some wet plate work appear on his blog.&nbsp; Meanwhile David collects tintypes and after looking through my most recent plates he expressed interest in purchasing a plate of Aleasha and Ford Fiesta that I made back at Buttercup Ranch in Lake Nebagamon.&nbsp; He also asked if I could make a tintype of his gallery for him and I was happy to oblige.&nbsp; Here is that plate and the one I made along with it of the buildings right next to his.&nbsp; Actually SG1311 is located in a 1898 building that used to be a butcher shop in the olden days and it's really cool to have David now cleanse the space with artistic vibrations.&nbsp; Do check out SG1311 blog - David has already put up an <a href="http://www.sg1311.blogspot.com/2013/07/photographer-anton-orlov-visited-sg1311.html" target="_blank">entry about my visit</a> and there's much more about his artistic ventures.&nbsp; David also blessed me with a really nice print of Elena, seeing how I met her and she was the one who brought us together.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iUjOQtpj0EE/UfM9-FqhSFI/AAAAAAAADDM/hRhEVqOcyys/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_La_Crosse_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sLmVUqO9dhM/UfM-C0X3OaI/AAAAAAAADDU/y6X8sn5tbL8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_La_Crosse_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sLmVUqO9dhM/UfM-C0X3OaI/AAAAAAAADDU/y6X8sn5tbL8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_La_Crosse_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iUjOQtpj0EE/UfM9-FqhSFI/AAAAAAAADDM/hRhEVqOcyys/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_La_Crosse_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iUjOQtpj0EE/UfM9-FqhSFI/AAAAAAAADDM/hRhEVqOcyys/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_La_Crosse_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After leaving the varnished plate in an vintage Kodachrome 5x7 box along with the shot of Aleasha I moved on down the road.&nbsp; Along the small highway I was traveling by I saw a scene that I couldn't pass up - an American Legion Post 13 in Richland Center WI.&nbsp; Here are some plates from there.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bnlF_-12GmE/UfM_DAQ-QCI/AAAAAAAADDo/BJm3Bi7G4Xk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Richland_WI_American_Legion_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bnlF_-12GmE/UfM_DAQ-QCI/AAAAAAAADDo/BJm3Bi7G4Xk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Richland_WI_American_Legion_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fYsRRU-umTY/UfM_EFRGOjI/AAAAAAAADDw/yDok5uSHQWQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Richland_WI_American_Legion_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fYsRRU-umTY/UfM_EFRGOjI/AAAAAAAADDw/yDok5uSHQWQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Richland_WI_American_Legion_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vme4QQi0x0A/UfM--58xIjI/AAAAAAAADDg/z63BDiifd0k/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Richland_WI_American_Legion_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Vme4QQi0x0A/UfM--58xIjI/AAAAAAAADDg/z63BDiifd0k/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Richland_WI_American_Legion_3.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Down the road was a town of Harvard and I reached that place just in time to hear Johnny Cash blaring from the open doors of a small bar.&nbsp; That was a sign for me to go in.&nbsp; As soon as I walked in a guy sitting at the bar looked at me and asked me if I was a blacksmith.&nbsp; I answered that unfortunately I was not and that started a instant friendship. That guy happened to be an artist by the name of <a href="http://www.gabrielshorn.com/" target="_blank">Gabriel Karagianis</a> and after a quick beer he invited me to park the bus at the lot by his studio.&nbsp; His studio happened to be located in an huge awesome space called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thestarlinegallery" target="_blank">The Starline Gallery</a> and I can't really even begin to describe how cool that space is.&nbsp; Gabriel is a great guy and we had a wonderful time talking about art, listening to Chopin and Felonious Monk, looking at his and mine art and even taking a meandering tour through the winding halls and stairs of the building at close to 3am.&nbsp; Here are some images of Gaberiel's studio and even a short video shot while some of his original music was playing in the background.&nbsp; I was also very happy to trade him one of my silver 8x10s for a high quality poster of one of his paintings.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRhSdzT1eW4/UfNCB44cWLI/AAAAAAAADEA/hTHece_FOgc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Startline_Gallery_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRhSdzT1eW4/UfNCB44cWLI/AAAAAAAADEA/hTHece_FOgc/s400/Photo_Palace_Startline_Gallery_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MmP1wVSU_T8/UfNCQBNU2jI/AAAAAAAADEQ/lQvLIX2K3PA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Startline_Gallery_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MmP1wVSU_T8/UfNCQBNU2jI/AAAAAAAADEQ/lQvLIX2K3PA/s400/Photo_Palace_Startline_Gallery_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kbStzuG4ZyY/UfNCMLmcebI/AAAAAAAADEI/Aw0Ox9Mbt18/s1600/Photo_Palace_Startline_Gallery_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kbStzuG4ZyY/UfNCMLmcebI/AAAAAAAADEI/Aw0Ox9Mbt18/s400/Photo_Palace_Startline_Gallery_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_x1WpHyQl84/UfNCRzsHSnI/AAAAAAAADEY/WcSYwCcHqFk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Startline_Gallery_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_x1WpHyQl84/UfNCRzsHSnI/AAAAAAAADEY/WcSYwCcHqFk/s400/Photo_Palace_Startline_Gallery_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-416086d23695d772" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/get_player"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D416086d23695d772%26itag%3D5%26source%3Dblogger%26app%3Dblogger%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%3Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1427566972%26sparams%3Dip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source%26signature%3D18FA935EAE49E0E5239DE1F27F267950F47357AA.A6DFA2A7FEAACC584AEB8D869CCC6F8804838702%26key%3Dck2&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D416086d23695d772%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DzHNbOycCpCmCaqA-im_qjHqC8Go&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"><embed src="//www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="flvurl=http://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D416086d23695d772%26itag%3D5%26source%3Dblogger%26app%3Dblogger%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%3Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1427566972%26sparams%3Dip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source%26signature%3D18FA935EAE49E0E5239DE1F27F267950F47357AA.A6DFA2A7FEAACC584AEB8D869CCC6F8804838702%26key%3Dck2&iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D416086d23695d772%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DzHNbOycCpCmCaqA-im_qjHqC8Go&autoplay=0&ps=blogger" allowFullScreen="true" /></object></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; We stayed up so late that by the time I went to bed it was getting light outside, so I woke up pretty late.&nbsp; In fact Gabriel's phone call woke me up and he brought by another artist friend of his (I am VERY sorry - if you are reading this I do not remember your name friend, but I did very much enjoy meeting you - please contact me and I'll update this little section to include your info).&nbsp; His friend actually happened to have been a photographer back in the days of film and with a glimmer in his eyes remembered the days of shooting 4x5 product shots by a boatload.&nbsp; He also said that somewhere in the attic of his garage there lay&nbsp; giant copy camera bellows and a set of lenses for that camera - he promised to send that to me and so I gave him my card with my San Diego address.&nbsp; It would be really cool if he did send that before I get back home as I can totally use those lenses on the new 24in camera that's waiting for me right now.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; From Harvard it was a relatively short drive to a place I've been waiting to visit ever since I started to do Wet Plates - <a href="http://www.maintrophysupply.com/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">Main Trophy Supply</a> in Mt. Prospect IL.&nbsp; This is the place that supplies aluminum plates to tintype photographers all over the country and even outside of US as well.&nbsp; I have ordered from them in the past and was very excited to actually be there in person.&nbsp; I was also running out of plates, so I re-stocked with about 25 12x24in sheets and had them cut me some more 8x20 plates for the next time I get brave enough to use that monster camera.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The company is small - only 5 employees and I met two of them - Dave (manager) and Karen (the lady who is always so nice on the phone while taking my orders).&nbsp; I think wet plate photographers make up less than 1% of their business - mostly it's companies that make trophies (as the name suggests).&nbsp; They carry aluminum and bronze sheets for plaque engravings in any color, thickness and finish that you can imagine.&nbsp; They even have iodized aluminum and Dave was kind enough to give me a sheet of that to try out.&nbsp; Here are some images from that mecca:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qXQzhYA1-RQ/UfNGO1mlNpI/AAAAAAAADEw/fpS-5oyMSdw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Main_Trophy_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qXQzhYA1-RQ/UfNGO1mlNpI/AAAAAAAADEw/fpS-5oyMSdw/s400/Photo_Palace_Main_Trophy_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bp45HLH0OwM/UfNGK6jFzPI/AAAAAAAADEo/D2nt3HEm1WQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Main_Trophy_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bp45HLH0OwM/UfNGK6jFzPI/AAAAAAAADEo/D2nt3HEm1WQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Main_Trophy_2.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IJxUgiJECW0/UfNGQOUWAHI/AAAAAAAADE4/C0EZJHXF1Fk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Main_Trophy_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IJxUgiJECW0/UfNGQOUWAHI/AAAAAAAADE4/C0EZJHXF1Fk/s400/Photo_Palace_Main_Trophy_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDpA7UwKytQ/UfNGT7fE8OI/AAAAAAAADFA/25cS30LG1xo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Main_Trophy_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZDpA7UwKytQ/UfNGT7fE8OI/AAAAAAAADFA/25cS30LG1xo/s400/Photo_Palace_Main_Trophy_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now when I call up I'll have a wonderful visual of the location and the smiling faces of the people who work there and my readers can see where the support for the tintypes I'm currently making come from.&nbsp; I do wonder where they are actually manufactured... That's next on the list I guess.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Main Trophy Supply is located in an industrial part of Mt. Prospect and I shot the following two images in their parking lot.&nbsp; These images perfectly exemplify industrial parks across America, so I think they are entirely appropriate for my 'Landscape of America' series.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8MGveiawKXQ/UfNPlBk1-3I/AAAAAAAADFU/_cl0K9fHQEc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Main_Trophy_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8MGveiawKXQ/UfNPlBk1-3I/AAAAAAAADFU/_cl0K9fHQEc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Main_Trophy_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l91J6_QN_6U/UfNPk5yo0pI/AAAAAAAADFQ/zsves7fBI-U/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Main_Trophy_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l91J6_QN_6U/UfNPk5yo0pI/AAAAAAAADFQ/zsves7fBI-U/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Main_Trophy_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; From Mt. Prospect (which, for those of you who don't want to look that up on the map is just above Chicago) I shot down past the windy city with its traffic, crazy road construction and the nation's highest murder rate and back to the small country highways that define America for me.&nbsp; I spent the night parked behind a small grocery store somewhere off the two-lane highway and was awoken rather early by the owners saying that deliveries are coming soon and I had to move...&nbsp; Nowhere near enough sleep was allotted, so in the morning, when I found myself passing a town of Fort Wayne IL&nbsp; and found more industrial parks there, I took a nap before making the following images.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6bVVHLd7w0g/UfNUam7tjqI/AAAAAAAADGA/E3UyxR0OZtI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fort_Wayne_IN_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6bVVHLd7w0g/UfNUam7tjqI/AAAAAAAADGA/E3UyxR0OZtI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fort_Wayne_IN_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PrTVvB6fb7M/UfNURXhOojI/AAAAAAAADFo/A4a8ph6Z45I/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fort_Wayne_IN_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PrTVvB6fb7M/UfNURXhOojI/AAAAAAAADFo/A4a8ph6Z45I/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fort_Wayne_IN_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O8xirV0899E/UfNURt2u_XI/AAAAAAAADFs/8Op_v-0BWDc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fort_Wayne_IN_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O8xirV0899E/UfNURt2u_XI/AAAAAAAADFs/8Op_v-0BWDc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fort_Wayne_IN_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OD1wrROwdGE/UfNUYk7p5dI/AAAAAAAADF4/SAmY9GgpLJU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fort_Wayne_IN_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OD1wrROwdGE/UfNUYk7p5dI/AAAAAAAADF4/SAmY9GgpLJU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fort_Wayne_IN_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Heading farther east on highway 6 I came upon a town of Waterloo where I saw a very typical mobile home park on the north side of the highway and an out-of-business building on the south side.&nbsp; That provided a perfect opportunity for the following two images.&nbsp; Middle America is full of mobile home parks comprising half of small towns and empty business buildings filling the other half....</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X3jvdGwmv1I/UfNXb7xwodI/AAAAAAAADGU/dJccZqhMLGU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Waterloo_IN_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X3jvdGwmv1I/UfNXb7xwodI/AAAAAAAADGU/dJccZqhMLGU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Waterloo_IN_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rxc5GCS0l-8/UfNXYrDPIZI/AAAAAAAADGM/quSfmMoWIXs/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Waterloo_IN_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rxc5GCS0l-8/UfNXYrDPIZI/AAAAAAAADGM/quSfmMoWIXs/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Waterloo_IN_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="goog_1993018250">&nbsp; These were made on the last of the 4x5 plates that I had originally started the journey with, so that indicates that I have made at least 100 tintypes by now as I vaguely remember there being over 100 to start with.&nbsp; As you can see in the background of the above images, by the time I was done drying these plates the sun has gone down and it was well into the dusk part of the evening.&nbsp; I decided to finally break down and find a motel for one night in hopes of getting some rest and maybe catching up on emails.&nbsp; I reached the city of Bowling Green OH pretty late at night and saw a glowing sign that read 'Best Motel'.&nbsp; Falling for this advertisement I pulled over and got a room</span>.&nbsp; I should have known...&nbsp; Nothing that claims to be 'best' usually lives up to it's name - the room was rather dingy, there was no tub to take a bath (just a very minimalistic shower stall) and above all the internet was so slow and connection so spotty that I barely got to read and answer a few emails before becoming frustrated and falling asleep.&nbsp; I dreamed that a professor that I had in junior college actually bought the 8x10 camera that I could not find in the clutter of the Duluth house and now was trying to sell it to me for an inflated price...</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning I had to cut the 12x24in sheets that I just picked up at Main Trophy Supply.&nbsp; I cut down 4 out of 25 sheets into 68 smaller plates - I'll be set for another couple of weeks now.&nbsp; I am very lucky to have this wonderful cutter - it came with a ton of junk for which I overpaid when I bought the equipment of my San Diego darkroom.&nbsp; This cutter rocks and saves me 35¢ for every plate that I cut.&nbsp; Furthermore it is a very expensive cutter and I would never be able to talk myself into buying it if I didn't have it already.&nbsp; On top of that this one can even be considered to be vintage by now as it was made in Western Germany - a country I grew up knowing, but that no longer exists.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uVtMPctsyfk/UfNbusA0W1I/AAAAAAAADGg/mSh2BD9E5WA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Plates_Cutting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uVtMPctsyfk/UfNbusA0W1I/AAAAAAAADGg/mSh2BD9E5WA/s400/Photo_Palace_Plates_Cutting.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;While I was at work the bus drew the attention of the owners of the motel (an Indian family).&nbsp; I was going to make a couple of plates of the motel (as it was again a very typically American one) and so I offered them a rare opportunity to see the creation of a tintype.&nbsp; The kids jumped on the opportunity, but their father waited outside of the darkroom - I think the heat and ether fumes were too much for him while the kids were so interested that they didn't seem to mind those factors too much.&nbsp; Here they are watching the magic of a clearing plate come to life and the images created on the property of 'Best Motel'.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgi8pySjWqg/UfNcuYht6QI/AAAAAAAADGs/lqPwhf0C_P0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Demo_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgi8pySjWqg/UfNcuYht6QI/AAAAAAAADGs/lqPwhf0C_P0/s400/Photo_Palace_Demo_2.jpg" width="400" />'</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PnEr5SeTJFU/UfNc5hhJgNI/AAAAAAAADG8/rFOXYA_mvTU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bowling_Green_OH_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PnEr5SeTJFU/UfNc5hhJgNI/AAAAAAAADG8/rFOXYA_mvTU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bowling_Green_OH_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lNiL5LX1gw8/UfNc2qgaxkI/AAAAAAAADG0/I-UiD16qhic/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bowling_Green_OH_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lNiL5LX1gw8/UfNc2qgaxkI/AAAAAAAADG0/I-UiD16qhic/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Bowling_Green_OH_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I really didn't drive as far as I planned before seeing a scene that drew my attention - ruins of a barn were being burned and a very interesting boat was sitting just by the raging fire.&nbsp; I turned around an pulled right onto the property, approached the owner who was idly watching the flames, explained what I was doing and was given permission to park anywhere and do what I needed to do.&nbsp; I was very interested in how fire would show up on tintypes.&nbsp; The answer came soon - NOT AT ALL!&nbsp; Here is a an image (Fuji FP100c with Polaroid 450 camera) of what the fire looked like: </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efG7pMCvB0A/UfNgbVhL0kI/AAAAAAAADHI/O-3bE5h2v3k/s1600/Photo_Palace_Helena_Fire_Polaroid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efG7pMCvB0A/UfNgbVhL0kI/AAAAAAAADHI/O-3bE5h2v3k/s400/Photo_Palace_Helena_Fire_Polaroid.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And here is the resulting two plates.&nbsp; Notice that there seems to be no fire at all!&nbsp; The exposures were 2 seconds at f16 and 1/4sec at f5.6 (the sun was going in and out explaining the difference).&nbsp; I did suspect that I will not get much of the flames to show as collodion images are sensitive to UV and blue light, but I thought at least some glow will be recorded...&nbsp; Nope - daylight completely overpowered the flame and the scene looks more like a post-war smoulder than a full-on fire.&nbsp; </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VaQCzBSgPRI/UfNhGo32H5I/AAAAAAAADHY/ciorwfbxptQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Helena_OH_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VaQCzBSgPRI/UfNhGo32H5I/AAAAAAAADHY/ciorwfbxptQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Helena_OH_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6T0tGpGlFiU/UfNhF2DMnBI/AAAAAAAADHQ/cZ9hZAX64gw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Helena_OH_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6T0tGpGlFiU/UfNhF2DMnBI/AAAAAAAADHQ/cZ9hZAX64gw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Helena_OH_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I swear - there were 3ft tall flames in both of these compositions...&nbsp;&nbsp; Collodion sees right through them though.&nbsp; Oh well, it was well worth a try and the experience.&nbsp; Plus the owner of the property got to observe a making of a tintype and then we had a very nice chat while I was washing the plates.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After drying the above tintypes I said my goodbyes and pulled out of the driveway back onto highway 6.&nbsp; While waiting for the cars to clear the way for Gilli I saw an interesting character walking on the side of the road heading west just about 40ft to the right of me.&nbsp; I think this is the first pedestrian I saw on a side of the road for a long long while, so I paid close attention when I passed him.&nbsp; he was pushing a baby stroller and on top of the gear loaded was a sign proclaiming that he is WALKING ACROSS USA!&nbsp; WOW!&nbsp; I couldn't believe my eyes, immediately pulled over, left the bus idling, grabbed my Rolleiflex, caught up to him and made one exposure before calling his attention (can't wait to actually develop that shot and send him a copy).&nbsp; Turns out that his name is Don Erickson and he's walking from NY to CA to raise awareness about organ donation for <a href="http://www.iowadonornetwork.org/" target="_blank">Iowa Donation Network</a>.&nbsp; What an incredible coincidence to run into this guy!&nbsp; We hugged, wished each other safe travels and good weather and went on in opposite directions.&nbsp; Here is a shot of Don with Gilli in the background and the driveway that I pulled out from on the right.&nbsp; He also asked me to stand behind his stroller and took a very similar picture with his phone - can't wait to see it!&nbsp; Good luck Don!&nbsp; It's a great cause and you are doing a wonderful thing.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TFJBfY7wMJA/UfNn5PbmsEI/AAAAAAAADHk/HdyJc0ujaYM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Organ_Donation_Walker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TFJBfY7wMJA/UfNn5PbmsEI/AAAAAAAADHk/HdyJc0ujaYM/s400/Photo_Palace_Organ_Donation_Walker.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The rest of the day my mood was definitely uplifted by this most random encounter.&nbsp; I drove a bit north to the shore of Lake Erie and found a nice little park from where I could make some exposures of this great body of water.&nbsp; When I pulled in I saw a sweet-looking older couple sitting in folding chairs gazing at the water.&nbsp; I decided that my first exposure will be of them, but I wanted it to be as natural as possible - they were so engulfed in the bliss of the moment that they didn't even turn around when I parked the bus just about 40ft behind them and set up my 4x5.&nbsp; I really love the resulting plate as it really has a feel of a lot of my street images.&nbsp; After developing the plate I showed it to them and they told me that today was their anniversary!&nbsp; Here's to Mel and Carol - may you have many more happy anniversaries!&nbsp; I sent them a copy of this image - hope they print it out nicely, the plate is really nice actually - the shadow detail and the fact that the sunny background both recorded were slightly surprising to me, maybe I'm getting better at this whole tintype thing...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FG9o_xO1w84/UfNqtPYyFwI/AAAAAAAADHw/V_SorD12y2o/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Erie_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FG9o_xO1w84/UfNqtPYyFwI/AAAAAAAADHw/V_SorD12y2o/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Erie_2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After my tintype paparazzi experience I made the following plate of the quiet beauty of Lake Erie's shoreline.&nbsp; The Great Lakes are really something to behold...&nbsp; Beautiful!&nbsp; </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HAoxlGnfUjY/UfNqt-LqdzI/AAAAAAAADH4/zruYdCEpjX0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Erie_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HAoxlGnfUjY/UfNqt-LqdzI/AAAAAAAADH4/zruYdCEpjX0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Erie_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Washed and dried the plates and decided to have a sandwich at the table by which Mel and Carol were sitting (they had left by that time).&nbsp; While I was making my sandwich a family had occupied the table, so I chose to sit not too far from them on a lonely bench.&nbsp; Just as I sat down they had a delivery of pizza come to the park and I overheard one of them saying that they didn't have napkins, so I went to the bus where I have a plentiful supply of those and brought out a stack.&nbsp; In return I was rewarded with a few slices of delicious local pizza pictured below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sr8doIc6N78/UfNsw0fRYEI/AAAAAAAADIE/3i-N9kzi2l4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Pizza_by_Erie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sr8doIc6N78/UfNsw0fRYEI/AAAAAAAADIE/3i-N9kzi2l4/s400/Photo_Palace_Pizza_by_Erie.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; I wasn't about to get free food without some sort of a return favor (napkins just didn't seem enough), so I invited all 5 aboard the bus and gave them a really quick history of photography rundown - starting with camera lucida and shadow drawings, through daguerreotypes, tintypes and albumen prints and into platinum, carbon, gum and bromoil prints and finishing up with gelatin silver and Ansel Adams.&nbsp; They thanked me profusely and said that since their two kids are home-schooled this was a really nice treat - that made me even happier than I already was and so I decided that it was time for this update.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now I am sitting at Blue Sky restaurant in Amherst OH, it's 3am, I'm hopped up on coffee and am actually ready to go back to the bus and varnish the 28 plates that I have recently made.&nbsp; I really shouldn't fall back on both writing blog entries and varnishing plates - this update took me a few hours to write and then 28 plates are going to take me another few hours to varnish (especially seeing how I really should filter the varnish at this point).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Tomorrow I will sleep in as long as the sun will allow me and go explore Cleveland.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; How was that for a 100th post?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/07/100th-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-111442576684677319Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:39:00 +00002014-01-28T23:46:47.659-08:00Minnesota Plus<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I'm going to very quickly try to recall what happened to me in the past week and then get back on the road.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; First off here is an interesting story that happened while I was still in North Dakota.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After leaving Shane's studio in Bismark I drove as far as could before getting tired.&nbsp; By that time it was the middle of the night and I was ready to pull over anywhere to get some shut-eye time.&nbsp; The exit I chose at random had a very small town that stretched along the road leading away from the freeway.&nbsp; I don't like to park by occupied houses because when I bleed the air from my breaks it makes a very loud hissing sound that wakes up the entire neighborhood and raises panic in the minds of sleepy residents.&nbsp; With that in mind I drove almost past the town and took a road that led to the right into the fields.&nbsp; The road quickly turned to gravel and there was no place to pull over with corn fields on both sides of me.&nbsp; I kept driving for a couple of miles before seeing a shadow of a large tree against a night sky and under that tree was a tractor with just enough space next to it to park Gilli.&nbsp; I happily pulled over and went to sleep.&nbsp; In the morning I was awoken rather early by a loud banging on the door - I knew that type of a knock can only come from the cops and indeed found a nice lady-sheriff peeking into the window when I drew the curtain open.&nbsp; Of course I was on someone's property and upon seeing a big yellow bus that appeared in the middle of the night the owners called authorities.&nbsp; I explained to the sheriff my situation and that I was planning on taking a picture of the tree and then taking off without damaging anything or causing any more havoc. She said that she'll relate that to the residents and left.&nbsp; No later than 10 minutes after that the owner of the property appeared on a 4-wheel drive carrying a cup of coffee and a warm bunt cake.&nbsp; We had a nice conversation and he said that his daughters might be interested in seeing the tintype-making process, so I told him I'd wait to start till he brought them over.&nbsp; He came back not only with his two kids, but with his father as well and so I made the plate while being observed by three generations of the family.&nbsp; The entire experience was much appreciated with many oohs dispensed throughout.&nbsp; After the father left with the two kids grandpa stuck around through the washing process and explained that the tree I just made a plate of was the only tree around when his father bought the property in 1930s.&nbsp; He said that at the time the tree was only 15ft tall and that his father planted all the other trees I was around me (and there were a lot of them including the ones on the horizon).&nbsp; That being so and having seen the process of creation he asked if he could buy the plate from me and I was happy to agree.&nbsp; I varnished the plate and handed it over in exchange for a check - the picture below is of that tree and the original plate is now residing withing a few hundred yards of what is possibly the oldest tree in the entire area.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1XpoCVbLaqQ/Ueww087mGfI/AAAAAAAAC84/K0LLOj7UUvQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Tree_ND.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1XpoCVbLaqQ/Ueww087mGfI/AAAAAAAAC84/K0LLOj7UUvQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Tree_ND.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After that it was on to Fargo for me.&nbsp; Fargo is a neat town that lays right on the Minnesota border and so it was my last chance to get some tintypes done in North Dakota.&nbsp; I pulled into downtown and made the following two plates.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fonETKDnmSs/UewxjeCLvxI/AAAAAAAAC9E/bG2K5cVaZ_s/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fargo_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fonETKDnmSs/UewxjeCLvxI/AAAAAAAAC9E/bG2K5cVaZ_s/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fargo_1.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IxOylZUd4vA/UewxjjtdHrI/AAAAAAAAC9I/93y1LaZqDYc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fargo_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IxOylZUd4vA/UewxjjtdHrI/AAAAAAAAC9I/93y1LaZqDYc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fargo_2.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Then I backtracked a bit because I thought I saw some more industrial-looking scenery on my way to downtown, but couldn't get to it because it was on the other side of the railroad tracks with no roads crossing over.&nbsp; While searching for those spots I came across a most interesting collection of random large objects on the side of the road and just had to stop and explore.&nbsp; Apparently the place is a repository of vintage junk - the owner, who came out to greet me, is an auctioneer and makes a living by rescuing unwanted stuff from all across the country, piling it up in front of his warehouse and selling it off little by little.&nbsp; He was very proud of the various treasures that were strewed about the yard and even invited me into the warehouse where I found the most amazing assortment of most random objects I have ever seen.&nbsp; Stuffed buffalo heads, horse-drawn carriages, Native American art, model cars, pieces of old farm equipment, furniture and much more were all in complete disarray making it quite a visual treat.&nbsp; Here are the two plates I made in front of the place - if there was enough light in the warehouse I could have probably made a dozen plates there too...</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VbqJkvXW-VM/UewzeUa065I/AAAAAAAAC9c/YmtgbO9I0qA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fargo_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VbqJkvXW-VM/UewzeUa065I/AAAAAAAAC9c/YmtgbO9I0qA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fargo_3.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ipnxI1l_8FM/UewzekUECBI/AAAAAAAAC9g/jz2CRDgKsvI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fargo_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ipnxI1l_8FM/UewzekUECBI/AAAAAAAAC9g/jz2CRDgKsvI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Fargo_4.jpg" height="400" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; When I crossed over into Minnesota it was still light and I decided that I should pull over and make a couple more images happen.&nbsp; Pretty soon I noticed a large compound of metal barns and thought they would make a good composition.&nbsp; I don't really remember where exactly this is, but it is right off highway 10 and not far from the ND border.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T9DFX9pJGFA/Uew0LbpJLLI/AAAAAAAAC9s/6Y4ewJhKhBg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_MN_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T9DFX9pJGFA/Uew0LbpJLLI/AAAAAAAAC9s/6Y4ewJhKhBg/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_MN_1.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swpSYP3vYwc/Uew0LkusjiI/AAAAAAAAC9w/u1r9MBPw2SU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_MN_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-swpSYP3vYwc/Uew0LkusjiI/AAAAAAAAC9w/u1r9MBPw2SU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_MN_2.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; By the time I was done with the wash it was getting pretty dark.&nbsp; I decided to drive until midnight and see where I land at that point.&nbsp; The towns that I encountered were extremely small.&nbsp; I was really hoping to find some life and maybe grab a beer at a local dive bar, but even though the bars in towns of population around 100 or less were open they only had one car in front of them and I assumed that it was the lonely bartender's vehicles.&nbsp; Amazingly enough, right as the clock struck midnight I saw a town with population listed as 250 and in the middle of it was a bar with live music.&nbsp; I can't describe the looks I got when I walked in there - I was the only person that they didn't recognize and I really felt like I was back in the villages of Japan.&nbsp; Nonetheless a nice older couple struck up a conversation with me a even bought me my first drink.&nbsp; What a place!&nbsp; Tap beer is only $1.25!&nbsp; The band was not bad and played some good American rock-n-roll.&nbsp; There was even a guy wearing a San Diego t-shirt that made me feel more at home.&nbsp; Here he is dancing with a lady who was responsible for my first beer.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sBCnvcD2Yew/Uew2TerNHUI/AAAAAAAAC-E/UGPGmKgN7RE/s1600/Photo_Palace_bar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sBCnvcD2Yew/Uew2TerNHUI/AAAAAAAAC-E/UGPGmKgN7RE/s400/Photo_Palace_bar.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning I kept on driving until I reached Duluth.&nbsp; Duluth was the place that I reached last year and took a short route going south from there, so now I was in more familiar territory.&nbsp; It's a nice old industrial city and I drove about until I found a few compositions to capture.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WTqhPGP-Y04/Uew3N_fVmoI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/UJA9hABo5ak/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WTqhPGP-Y04/Uew3N_fVmoI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/UJA9hABo5ak/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_1.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OVWUy4YWoik/Uew3ONlqb0I/AAAAAAAAC-Y/dfVwZlbiwLc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OVWUy4YWoik/Uew3ONlqb0I/AAAAAAAAC-Y/dfVwZlbiwLc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_2.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nl3FQLf8o54/Uew3OCx-IYI/AAAAAAAAC-U/k-6_i9id0DI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Nl3FQLf8o54/Uew3OCx-IYI/AAAAAAAAC-U/k-6_i9id0DI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_3.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Just south of Duluth, in Lake Nabagamon Wisconsin lives Aleasha - a friend of mine from Rainbow Gatherings whom I met in 2009 in New Mexico.&nbsp; She is a very cool lady - welder, mechanic and teacher, fire dancer, artist and animal lover and in general a great, low-stress person to be around.&nbsp; Her ranch is a place I love to visit and so I decided to stay there for a while and take a little break from the road.&nbsp; Here are a couple of pictures taken on Buttercup Ranch, as she calls it. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VDAgyJM-Z4w/Uew4Flt5WPI/AAAAAAAAC-o/rHO75E5Th1Q/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Nabagamon_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VDAgyJM-Z4w/Uew4Flt5WPI/AAAAAAAAC-o/rHO75E5Th1Q/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Nabagamon_1.jpg" height="297" width="400" />&nbsp;</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Solorized Tintype (my first attempt at this technique)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4hZiOxxM9ws/Uew4F9-SH0I/AAAAAAAAC-s/MWLqyXlr438/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Nabagamon_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4hZiOxxM9ws/Uew4F9-SH0I/AAAAAAAAC-s/MWLqyXlr438/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Nabagamon_2.jpg" height="297" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Earth Rover (an art project built by Aleasha) </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RzsrFsIAL1Y/Uew4F1EOS-I/AAAAAAAAC-0/G3p62nVWbmU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Nabagamon_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RzsrFsIAL1Y/Uew4F1EOS-I/AAAAAAAAC-0/G3p62nVWbmU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Nabagamon_3.jpg" height="400" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aleasha fixing a donated Ford Fiesta </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LEF5HCoGeE8/Uew7pwQfNtI/AAAAAAAAC_k/aYbzc0eepsA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Nabagamon_Wood_Pile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LEF5HCoGeE8/Uew7pwQfNtI/AAAAAAAAC_k/aYbzc0eepsA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Lake_Nabagamon_Wood_Pile.jpg" height="297" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wood Pile&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; Duluth is only 30mi up from Lake Nabagamon and I decided to go back there in search of some more compositions and with a plan to test out my 8x20 camera.&nbsp; Luckily, back in Bismark, Shane has donated to me a liter of silver nitrate, so now I could finally fill the enormous sensitizing tank for those size plates.&nbsp; I drove about until I found a way to access the grain elevators that are very prominent in the Duluth landscape.&nbsp; The place I thought would have the best perspective of them was a salvage yard and I had to get permission to park there.&nbsp; Lovely ladies at the office were very helpful and gave me a hard hat and a yellow jacket to wear and told me that I could park there for about 1.5 hours.&nbsp; Well....&nbsp; I ended up being there almost 3 hours and this is the resulting best plate.&nbsp; 8x20 in is infinitely harder than simple 4x5 or 5x7 and I'm going to need to practice a lot more before I can pull them off faster and cleaner.&nbsp; I like this one though, glad I pushed on.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CpsxGQ32mNo/Uew6ftS8KDI/AAAAAAAAC_M/88l1wynA8hA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_Elevators_Panoramic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CpsxGQ32mNo/Uew6ftS8KDI/AAAAAAAAC_M/88l1wynA8hA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_Elevators_Panoramic.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While I was shooting Jillian, a good friend of Aleasha's, called me up and invited me to a small get-together on Lake Superior.&nbsp; The darkroom was hot and stuffy, so I was happy to jump on the opportunity to join some folks for a swim.&nbsp; Lake Superior was very calm and relatively warm and I very much enjoyed seeing Jillian again.&nbsp; The only downfall was an over-abundance of small flies, which kept biting with a bite as vicious as that of a horse fly...&nbsp; Still - isn't it pretty?&nbsp; It's so big it totally looks like the ocean.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rrG4uqZWPFc/Uew7i7H48xI/AAAAAAAAC_c/tiLHTvRqgEg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Lake_Superior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rrG4uqZWPFc/Uew7i7H48xI/AAAAAAAAC_c/tiLHTvRqgEg/s400/Photo_Palace_Lake_Superior.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; This is a bit off from the timeline, but an interesting story and I'm happy to relate it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; At some point while being in Duluth I stopped by a local camera store called First Photo and asked them if they had anything really old or odd for sale.&nbsp; They said that unfortunately they didn't have anything of the sort, but gave me a number for a local repairman and said that if anyone would have anything like that it would be him.&nbsp; I called him upand met him at his home/office.&nbsp; He was very impressed with the bus and actually donated an odd little camera that I will do my best to use for making small tintypes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Also he said that he recalls there having been a collector who died last year and left behind a pile of boxes filled with random old cameras.&nbsp; That sounded very exciting and I asked if he had any way of getting in touch with his relatives to see if that stuff was still around.&nbsp; He said that though he didn't have any numbers he did remember the last name and so I wrote down every number in White Pages associated with that last name.&nbsp; There were 6 of them and the next day I started going down the list until at last I spoke to the son of the deceased photographer who gave his sister's number saying that she lives in the house where the stuff is stored.&nbsp; After calling her I arranged a meeting for later that evening and soon found myself in a house crowded with boxes that went up to the ceiling.&nbsp; Boxes upon boxed, in front of boxes and behind boxes - layers and layers of boxes.&nbsp; It appears that her father was not only into collecting cameras, but also guns, stamps and old radio and television equipment.&nbsp; There were boxes of vacuum tubes, stamp albums and envelopes from all over the world, transmitters, receivers and of course cases of guns, shotguns and rifles.&nbsp; For the safety of the household I am not disclosing the name or location of this stash, but I am happy to say that after digging there on that evening and coming back the next day to dig some more I was able to find a lot of cameras and other photo-related stuff that I bought.&nbsp; One of the coolest things in there was a box filled to the brim with Lantern Slide making materials and two large boxed of Lantern Slides.&nbsp; It appears that the photographer was one of the last to not only process his own medium format slide film, but also to make them into Lantern Slides and I saw (though did not purchase) a box filled with what must have been a few hundred or even a thousand slides - all neatly stacked up in filing boxes, but, as usual, missing any labels and descriptions.&nbsp; Now I have the supplies to make my own slides - anything from masks to cover glass and sealing tape.&nbsp; The tough part is going to be actually making the black and white images on glass, but I'm hoping to take a workshop on that when the time for that project gets closer.&nbsp; Oh yeah, I also did a couple of tintypes while parked in front of the house to illustrate what I do.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qRylmIlZt3Y/UexAcTkVZxI/AAAAAAAAC_0/zgzX6Kj2LLU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_Barrel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qRylmIlZt3Y/UexAcTkVZxI/AAAAAAAAC_0/zgzX6Kj2LLU/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_Barrel.jpg" height="297" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Back Yard Barrel </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TnAlFlAKgZE/UexAcRguYdI/AAAAAAAAC_4/aSCH81Ii9vI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_College_Students.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TnAlFlAKgZE/UexAcRguYdI/AAAAAAAAC_4/aSCH81Ii9vI/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Duluth_College_Students.jpg" height="400" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">College Students - they were all invited aboard the bus for a demonstration of the process and I can't tell you how excited and amazed they were to see the image appear on the plate and then clear in the fixer.... &nbsp; They also were giddy with excitement to see the row of Polaroid pictures I have in the bus - it seems that a couple of them have never seen real Polaroid pictures and they were amazed at their colors.&nbsp; I love what I do! </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After relaxing at Buttercup Ranch I headed to Minneapolis.&nbsp; As some of my readers may remember I am in the process of researching the history of the Lantern Slides taken by John Rahill in 1917-18 in Russia, China and Japan.&nbsp; Rahill was working with YMCA at the time and the larges archive of that organization happens to be located at University of Minnesota.&nbsp; Once again I found myself deep in letters and field notes of the brave and idealistic men who went into a vastly complicated and dangerous situation and tried to help out in any way they could.&nbsp; This time I was able to find some more interesting information including the exact dates of John's departure and return, the ship he was traveling by and much more, so it was a great day at the archives.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Afterward I went to meet another wet plate photographer by the name of Richard Jones.&nbsp; Like Shane, Richard has no formal education in photography and started doing wet plate out of sheer fascination.&nbsp; He took a workshop from Quinn Jacobs in Denver and says that it's the best investment of money and time that he has ever made.&nbsp; His plates prove it - they are clean and well precessed.&nbsp; Here is Richard at work in his makeshift bathroom-darkroom and the resulting plate of yours truly and Gilli-the-Gillig</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QN0LWbfmbb8/UexDH_tDJwI/AAAAAAAADAM/O43Eq6YTuFA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QN0LWbfmbb8/UexDH_tDJwI/AAAAAAAADAM/O43Eq6YTuFA/s400/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_1.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzmMoTYTQCg/UexDIeeAxAI/AAAAAAAADAY/ebkwp3bjZbc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzmMoTYTQCg/UexDIeeAxAI/AAAAAAAADAY/ebkwp3bjZbc/s400/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_2.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f4S65nEzLuk/UexDIG6s9XI/AAAAAAAADAQ/HBk4vWZoRFc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f4S65nEzLuk/UexDIG6s9XI/AAAAAAAADAQ/HBk4vWZoRFc/s400/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_3.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-821z8zsiJtg/UexDJ0Yj4EI/AAAAAAAADAs/1f5y-LUeO48/s1600/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-821z8zsiJtg/UexDJ0Yj4EI/AAAAAAAADAs/1f5y-LUeO48/s400/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_5.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cHCRc4VmQ0E/UexDJ0a24bI/AAAAAAAADAw/sZnA-HufGxs/s1600/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_Tintype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cHCRc4VmQ0E/UexDJ0a24bI/AAAAAAAADAw/sZnA-HufGxs/s400/Photo_Palace_Richard_Jones_Tintype.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This copy is a bit bark - the original is better.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After meeting Richard I drove down toward Rochester (the Minnesota one) and met with Peggy Williams - a relative of my lovely ex-girlfriend Rachel.&nbsp; She lives in Oronoco and was kind enough not offer me a place to stay here and I was happy to oblige.&nbsp; Peggy, along with her husband and his 92 year old WWII veteran father lives a bit out of town on a nice piece of land up on a hill.&nbsp; There are horses, chickens and apple-eating dogs here.&nbsp; I have been here over the past two night and now feel completely rested and ready for more road-time.&nbsp; Here are the plates that I made during the say.&nbsp; After demonstrating the process Peggy expressed interest in buying a plate of the house and that made me really happy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fSCsi9Ig56k/UexDrMQpIwI/AAAAAAAADBA/ACU2ADtDCdw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fSCsi9Ig56k/UexDrMQpIwI/AAAAAAAADBA/ACU2ADtDCdw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_1.jpg" height="297" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Peggy's home </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pEzuGokPBLI/UexDra9nWYI/AAAAAAAADBI/a58tSqz3ZLo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pEzuGokPBLI/UexDra9nWYI/AAAAAAAADBI/a58tSqz3ZLo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_2.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DhdL-_EWA0/UexDrdxbFjI/AAAAAAAADBE/QU53pl0eNic/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DhdL-_EWA0/UexDrdxbFjI/AAAAAAAADBE/QU53pl0eNic/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_3.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b1qHmkTxFeY/UexDsvOBh7I/AAAAAAAADBY/mNu_BVroeSo/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b1qHmkTxFeY/UexDsvOBh7I/AAAAAAAADBY/mNu_BVroeSo/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_4.jpg" height="297" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xAcuvtblmfo/UexDs1jSFGI/AAAAAAAADBg/Q3XDb3W68As/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xAcuvtblmfo/UexDs1jSFGI/AAAAAAAADBg/Q3XDb3W68As/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Oronoco_5.jpg" height="297" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet another cloud shot.&nbsp; This cloud was messing with me - every time I would shoot it would cover the sun and then when I would emerge from the darkroom after developing the plate it would let the sun shine and make me want to coat another plate. This went on for the three previous shots, so when I refocused once again (in nice sunset light) and came out to see that the sun is once again covered I just pointed the camera at that cloud and shot it as to show the wet plate gods that I can not be deterred.&nbsp; I think it came out rather well and after that the cloud almost dissolved leaving room for a very nice sunset.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; OK, I think this is the bulk of everything that happened in the past week.&nbsp; Now I am going to explore the smaller highways if eastern Minnesota and Wisconsin.&nbsp; I think I'll stop by Madison - it's a place I enjoyed very much when I was there last time in 2002 and I can't wait to see it again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Anton Orlov </div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/07/minnesota-plus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-600277775204752531Sat, 13 Jul 2013 05:17:00 +00002013-07-12T22:17:13.948-07:00One month on the road<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The other day I realized that it's been just over a month since I left San Diego in search of Americana and a mission to make as many wet plate images as possible.&nbsp; This realization led me to want to write an update, but now that I've sat down to do so I realize that a lot has happened even since the last update, so I don't know how long this post is going to end up being.&nbsp; Here we go.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; At the Rainbow Gathering I shot about 26 rolls of regular film.&nbsp; 23 120 with my trusty Rolleiflex F and 3 35mm with a Stereo Realist.&nbsp; I know, I know - what am I doing shooting dry gelatin silver film?&nbsp; Well, tintypes require a darkroom to be nearby where the image is captured and since there are no cars allowed inside the Rainbow I had to resort to my old habits.&nbsp; Next year I am going to be prepared and will have a setup, I think it would be a perfect place to make a series of portraits.&nbsp; This time I shot film and afterward I was really looking forward to seeing the latent images (maybe I'm spoiled by wet plate now and want to see those pictures as soon as I capture them....), so I headed back up to Photographers Formulary knowing that their darkroom would be a perfect place to get some developing done.&nbsp; Did I mention that use of the darkroom is included if you say at the <a href="http://www.standingstonebandb.com/" target="_blank">Standing Stones Bed and Breakfast</a>?!&nbsp; What a deal!&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On my way there I pulled over a few times and made a some more Montana plates.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fVDYl9lPvdg/UeDEbninpCI/AAAAAAAAC3w/IepBCg25Wg8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_.Grass_River.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fVDYl9lPvdg/UeDEbninpCI/AAAAAAAAC3w/IepBCg25Wg8/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_.Grass_River.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grass and River </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d4Vn6IY0klg/UeDEc1q2JwI/AAAAAAAAC34/lkH3xwvQYSA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_.Lake_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d4Vn6IY0klg/UeDEc1q2JwI/AAAAAAAAC34/lkH3xwvQYSA/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_.Lake_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seeley Lake 2 </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3djQ7CpJtQ/UeDEkZcz6rI/AAAAAAAAC4A/adfecXyGDyQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_.Montana_Mountains.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F3djQ7CpJtQ/UeDEkZcz6rI/AAAAAAAAC4A/adfecXyGDyQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_.Montana_Mountains.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Montana Highway 83 </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vkcMep6rCuE/UeDEmFVOrWI/AAAAAAAAC4I/YixtwNXxC_w/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Montana_Road.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vkcMep6rCuE/UeDEmFVOrWI/AAAAAAAAC4I/YixtwNXxC_w/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Montana_Road.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Road to Linbergh Lake</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; I got to Photographers Formulary pretty late and decided to wait until a fresh new day to start the developing marathon.&nbsp; I can't say enough good things about their darkroom and the work flew by quickly and without a hitch.&nbsp; 26 rolls were all processed, dried and contact sheets made from them in the matter of about 5 hours (could have done it faster if I had more or bigger steel tanks, but as it was I had to do 4 rolls at a time...).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kOETVlHdSBc/UeDHMgnirQI/AAAAAAAAC4o/MLwT0yr4zFw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Rolls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kOETVlHdSBc/UeDHMgnirQI/AAAAAAAAC4o/MLwT0yr4zFw/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Rolls.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rolls of Verichrome Pan waiting to reveal their treasures</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2LVVF0vdipw/UeDHImsje4I/AAAAAAAAC4c/KJ0lCOK0S08/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Contact_Sheets.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2LVVF0vdipw/UeDHImsje4I/AAAAAAAAC4c/KJ0lCOK0S08/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Contact_Sheets.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contact sheets drying</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Upon having a quick look at the contact sheets I found this image too cool not to post - how often do you see a tattoo of a Rolleiflex or any other camera for that matter?&nbsp; When I walked by this girl at the trade circle while carrying my Rollei TLR she called my attention and proudly said 'my Rollei is always with me' while flexing her arm.&nbsp; I think the other tat is pretty nifty too - a simple biological representation of a plant cell.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ON3FgxX-Iw4/UeDH6uJEHGI/AAAAAAAAC4w/5iG4lgAMlNs/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Rollei_Tattoo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ON3FgxX-Iw4/UeDH6uJEHGI/AAAAAAAAC4w/5iG4lgAMlNs/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Rollei_Tattoo.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After departing from the comfort of Photographers Formulary I headed east on Montana highway 200.&nbsp; The road quickly turned from this:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o7lYnVkl-9U/UeDJM1yT9sI/AAAAAAAAC5A/8DlHf2rugJI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Montana_Road_Mountains.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o7lYnVkl-9U/UeDJM1yT9sI/AAAAAAAAC5A/8DlHf2rugJI/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Montana_Road_Mountains.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To this: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-byyDJ-aDgcg/UeDJbuVGviI/AAAAAAAAC5I/x2hVrL5aUwM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Montana_Road_Flat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-byyDJ-aDgcg/UeDJbuVGviI/AAAAAAAAC5I/x2hVrL5aUwM/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Montana_Road_Flat.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Still, there was plenty to shoot and I kept stopping and documenting what I found.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g1vcfCoGsho/UeDJ_8VkfKI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/WWYddo20eKk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Horses_Jordan_MT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g1vcfCoGsho/UeDJ_8VkfKI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/WWYddo20eKk/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Horses_Jordan_MT.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am now totally hooked on shooting animals.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By Jordan MT </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HjZEl-bNfAY/UeDKCBEK-FI/AAAAAAAAC5c/MFvCPt8yFLA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_MT_200_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HjZEl-bNfAY/UeDKCBEK-FI/AAAAAAAAC5c/MFvCPt8yFLA/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_MT_200_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Big abandoned building by the highway. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KCns7ZQW_IE/UeDKB_CINCI/AAAAAAAAC5Y/cLRwN2ZEm3Y/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_MT_200_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KCns7ZQW_IE/UeDKB_CINCI/AAAAAAAAC5Y/cLRwN2ZEm3Y/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_MT_200_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; I went inside and saw a large rat tail disappear under the rubble and in the next room there were birds nests and one dead bird was swinging slowly suspended from the ceiling on a wire...&nbsp; Kinda gave me the creeps. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uhF0w394fck/UeDKO6aEqrI/AAAAAAAAC5o/bhzdQCYmlA8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_MT_200_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uhF0w394fck/UeDKO6aEqrI/AAAAAAAAC5o/bhzdQCYmlA8/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_MT_200_3.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Probably the best plate of the abandoned building shoot.&nbsp; I really hope it doesn't develop a yellow line on the right side after it accidentally dried there before being washed....</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bYUwbkIf-9s/UeDKPdVflLI/AAAAAAAAC5w/v18-53Xvj1U/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Wyndham_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bYUwbkIf-9s/UeDKPdVflLI/AAAAAAAAC5w/v18-53Xvj1U/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Wyndham_1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By Wyndham MT </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cOk1QliNMrk/UeDKR3nYC8I/AAAAAAAAC54/SNf29cdSt_Q/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Wyndham_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cOk1QliNMrk/UeDKR3nYC8I/AAAAAAAAC54/SNf29cdSt_Q/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Wyndham_2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grain Elevator By Wyndham MT 1</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pGvLFVAv3UI/UeDKVEXI69I/AAAAAAAAC6A/3TuXnDl_zvk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Wyndham_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pGvLFVAv3UI/UeDKVEXI69I/AAAAAAAAC6A/3TuXnDl_zvk/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Wyndham_3.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grain Elevator By Wyndham MT 2&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After the sun went down I drove straight to Glendive where the small highway 200 joins 94 freeway.&nbsp; I don't know what it is about my luck with sleeping spots, but for the second time I picked a place right next to where train tracks cross a road and have to warn traffic by blowing their extraordinarily loud horn a few times...&nbsp; I was afraid that it was going to go on all night like it did in Seattle, but luckily they quieted down after midnight and I go some sleep.&nbsp; In the morning I went to the store to replenish my dwindling food supplies and upon coming out found a very nice guy waiting for me by Gilli.&nbsp; His name is Bill Schmidt and he was super excited to tell me that he too has a 35ft Gillig bus and is waiting to convert it into an RV. His is a 1971 and came from Antelope Valley CA.&nbsp; It's always nice to meet people who either have aGillig bus or even know what they are.&nbsp; After a short tour we chatted a bit and he told me that he'd owned converted buses for a few decades now and is completely hooked on having one now.&nbsp; I hope he contacts me later and we'll have a nice reunion after he converts his Gillig.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Glendive is pretty close to North Dakota and so I decided to make my next pictures there.&nbsp; Most of you have probably heard that the northern part of ND is experiencing quite an oil boom, so I decided to find me some oil rigs to shoot.&nbsp; Unfortunately the day started off extremely hot and the forecast was predicting a high of 102°.&nbsp; I drove to Belfield (a town on the southern edge of the oil exploration) and by the time I got there it was so hot that all I could do is find a nice shady spot and take a nap.&nbsp; When I went to sleep it was sunny and hot.&nbsp; When I got up not a full hour later, the sky was overcast and the wind had picked rather noticeably.&nbsp; I hopped behind the wheel and pulled out in search of an oil rig.&nbsp; What I saw to the west was a very ominous looking deeply grey cloud with obviously heavy rain under it.&nbsp; Undeterred by that site I drove up to the nearest rig.&nbsp; By the time I was done washing the plate the sky looked like this, lightning was all around and first drops of rain were starting to fall. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d32g4gMN-wY/UeDQzdAM6wI/AAAAAAAAC6Q/8qSgzB6Bn-w/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Clouds_Coming.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d32g4gMN-wY/UeDQzdAM6wI/AAAAAAAAC6Q/8qSgzB6Bn-w/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Clouds_Coming.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I started driving east as far as Gilli goes and turned the radio on just in time to hear the emergency broadcast system and a warning about a possibility of a tornado and a definite prediction of a severe thunderstorm with possible hail...&nbsp; The announcers kept talking about a 'wall cloud' and how they didn't see any rotation in it yet.&nbsp; In a few miles I saw what they were talking about - if this is not a WALL CLOUD then I don't know what is...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ISQtzYL-N6c/UeDRxWQ0QDI/AAAAAAAAC6c/v8iyIR1CK_c/s1600/Photo_Palace_Wall_Cloud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ISQtzYL-N6c/UeDRxWQ0QDI/AAAAAAAAC6c/v8iyIR1CK_c/s400/Photo_Palace_Wall_Cloud.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Radio signal was being interrupted by loud hissing every time I saw lightning in my rear view mirror and that was about every 3-5 seconds.&nbsp; I think the following image reflects perfectly what my getaway felt like.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lGWY3VUYI8A/UeDTLaKTpdI/AAAAAAAAC60/-uqod9-kZ1U/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_cloud_getaway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lGWY3VUYI8A/UeDTLaKTpdI/AAAAAAAAC60/-uqod9-kZ1U/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_cloud_getaway.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After escaping the storm I drove to the capitol of North Dakota - Bismarck.&nbsp; A couple of days before I posted that I'll be in North Dakota in one of the groups on Facebook dedicated to wet plate photography and someone suggested that I meet with Shane Balkowitsch.&nbsp; I sent him a friend request and was quickly approved, we stuck up a conversation online and soon he called me in person.&nbsp; He sounded like a great guy and invited me to watch one of his Friday sittings.&nbsp; After hearing that I may not be be in the best of shapes from the long and windy road he was extremely kind to actually donate a room at the local Comfort Inn (owned by his cousin as it happens).&nbsp; I couldn't believe my luck and went to sleep happy and in comfort (no pun intended).&nbsp; This morning I drove right to his studio/darkroom and a the fun began.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Shane explained to me in no uncertain terms that he is NOT a photographer.&nbsp; This sounded rather odd coming from someone who's progress in the world of wet plate imagery I had been watching in that Facebook group for what seemed like quite a while now.&nbsp; I remember seeing him in the process of building the studio/darkroom, getting his cameras, finding lenses....&nbsp; What I didn't realize is that Shane started doing photography after seeing some online images of wet plate process.&nbsp; For some reason it called to him and even though he had admittedly never owned even a 35mm camera before he went all out and started a self-teaching process of trial and error.&nbsp; Shane actually owns a business - <a href="http://www.balkowitsch.com/" target="_blank">Balkowitsch Enterprises</a>.&nbsp; It must be one of the earliest online retailers and has been online since 1997 - remember the days of dial-up, before cell phones became a natural attachment to every walking human in out society?&nbsp; Yep, Shane thought way back when "hey, we can sell things worldwide using this new internet thing!"&nbsp;&nbsp; Now you can buy anything and every there, he employs a good size staff and has a pretty sizable warehouse a corner of which is converted into ta beautiful little wet plate space.&nbsp; He calls it Nostalgic Glass Studio and all he does there is shoot friends, relatives and other interested folks for free, keeps the best plate for himself and gives the rest to the sitters.&nbsp; What a guy!&nbsp; Her is his in his silver-stained jeans behind the wheel of Gilli.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6n8OK6wMHw/UeDXHUWqSvI/AAAAAAAAC7E/lXggOLi6MpU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_In_Bus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6n8OK6wMHw/UeDXHUWqSvI/AAAAAAAAC7E/lXggOLi6MpU/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_In_Bus.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IbQdAYepf-o/UeDXfhWgZ4I/AAAAAAAAC7k/f1EkwsrIRT8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_Studio_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IbQdAYepf-o/UeDXfhWgZ4I/AAAAAAAAC7k/f1EkwsrIRT8/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_Studio_4.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; It's pretty neat to step into a place that you've been watching in the process of construction from the start.&nbsp; I remember Shane's post when he painted the floor black, got the sign done, placed that black rectangle on the door and labeled it 'clear ambrotype viewing area' and more recently got those cookie sheets that you can see to the left of the white desk on a shelf under the table (he uses those to protect the plates from dust while they are being varnished).&nbsp;&nbsp; Now I was actually in this space and it really felt familiar.&nbsp; He has pretty excellent lighting setup and before his sitters showed up he went on to make this wonderful 5x7 clear glass ambrotype of me - I think I look like a mafia boss, but others have suggested that I look more like a miner on his weekend.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DuSRKXmK0cc/UeDbDhV08DI/AAAAAAAAC70/NHQhOfzWYKs/s1600/Me_By_Shane_Balkowitsch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DuSRKXmK0cc/UeDbDhV08DI/AAAAAAAAC70/NHQhOfzWYKs/s400/Me_By_Shane_Balkowitsch.jpg" width="276" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Here Shane is seen cleaning the glass for the shoot.&nbsp; He cleans it with whiting right before shooting - I think that's a pretty good idea and I might start doing that since recently I had some unfortunate markings on some of my glass plates that I cleaned very well before taking off on the trip.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EYToYtB_tRw/UeDXbM5BwSI/AAAAAAAAC7U/GJTHmJrXY2o/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_Studio_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EYToYtB_tRw/UeDXbM5BwSI/AAAAAAAAC7U/GJTHmJrXY2o/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_Studio_2.jpg" width="297" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; His sitters today were a lovely couple recommended by his brother.&nbsp; They took a quick tour of my darkroom as well and patiently sat through a short history of photography lecture illustrated by the various prints I have in The Photo Palace Bus.&nbsp; Here the model is seen in the ground glass of his modern replica wet plate camera.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-diTDNoGQVQ4/UeDXbG_aqjI/AAAAAAAAC7g/RRyJoOYQEKw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_Studio_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-diTDNoGQVQ4/UeDXbG_aqjI/AAAAAAAAC7g/RRyJoOYQEKw/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_Studio_1.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; And here she is in a non-inverted way, posing my the florescent light banks. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_EMmQ-bvAuo/UeDXaPCUiVI/AAAAAAAAC7Q/quytdQMz0hU/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_Studio_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_EMmQ-bvAuo/UeDXaPCUiVI/AAAAAAAAC7Q/quytdQMz0hU/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Shane_Studio_3.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Shane actually let me handle the lighting and I was happy to do so - I love working in the studio and don't get enough of it.&nbsp; We did a couple of shots using short Rembrandt light and then one butterfly.&nbsp; Then we decided to take one shot of her husband and that one really turned out to be the best shot of the day in my view.&nbsp; He was placed in a floppy leather-looking hat and flannel shirt and given a bottle of whiskey, made to straddle a chair while looking square into the camera and lit with two rim lights and flat Rembrandt.&nbsp; The shot turned out absolutely fantastic - I hope to put a link to it someday when Shane places it online.&nbsp; </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the end I did two plates of Shane by Gilli's tire and gave one to him in exchange for the above portrait of yours truly.&nbsp; Here is a plate that I kept for myself - luckily he actually liked the other one, which was more gritty and high contrast, this was the second one and we used a reflector on it to soften the light.&nbsp; In the first shot he really looks like a WWII mechanic even more so than he does here.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MFlpZBIAoEY/UeDdq8HbyZI/AAAAAAAAC8E/mUtGuoVOvtk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus__Tintype_Shane_Balkowitsch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MFlpZBIAoEY/UeDdq8HbyZI/AAAAAAAAC8E/mUtGuoVOvtk/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus__Tintype_Shane_Balkowitsch.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; We parted after about 6 hours together and now I feel that we are really good friends - incredible how a 150 year old photo process can bring together two people and give them a wonderful opportunity to become close while speaking the same language.&nbsp; I'll have to be back in North Dakota and hope to see Shane and his family even before that happens.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Soon I was on the freeway again. The sun was getting close to being too low and I decided to pull over at the first town that I came across to make some more plates.&nbsp; That town turned out to be Tapppen.&nbsp; I knew I liked it when I saw this Thank You tag on one of the abandoned buildings</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BIFMYWpQly4/UeDe7-bC0yI/AAAAAAAAC8U/z6jm-pJsCnI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tappen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BIFMYWpQly4/UeDe7-bC0yI/AAAAAAAAC8U/z6jm-pJsCnI/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tappen.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; There I made two plates and here they are still in the washing process.&nbsp; Can't say that the reflection of the sky and my shadow makes the images better, but this is not really a venue for you folks to really appreciate the fine qualities of tintypes - that will have to wait till a show of some sort after the trip is complete.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-lgUbe28Js/UeDfTJ2FWTI/AAAAAAAAC8c/PaiIx1QxLBQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Tappen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-lgUbe28Js/UeDfTJ2FWTI/AAAAAAAAC8c/PaiIx1QxLBQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Tappen.jpg" width="297" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; OK, this was today and now I'm in Jamestown, about to finish a rather long post (it's past midnight.... gee... every time....).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As I mentioned before - it's been a month on the road now.&nbsp; I feel great and I think the plate making process is starting to become more familiar to me.&nbsp; I even mixed up a new batch of developer that I use when the darkroom is above 85°F - it has more restrainer and water than regular batch of developer. Next step - actually trying a whole new developer formula with pyrogallic acid (but more about that later).&nbsp; Right now I still hold a shed of hope that by some miracle the <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/photo-palace-pan-american-wet-plate-survey/x/1866295" target="_blank">funding campaign on indiegogo</a> will reach at least 50% of the goal.&nbsp; If it doesn't I do have an alternative plan of action, but it would really mean that the whole 4-corners of the country goal will not be accomplished.&nbsp; Florida will have to wait.&nbsp; Still - last month on the road has been great.&nbsp; Over 3500 miles have been covered and I must have made over 50 plates by now and am picking up speed, the people I met have been wonderful and I'm looking forward to meeting many more.&nbsp; Some really neat events are coming up in August - they will be a surprise for you, my dear readers.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Right now I'm going to drive as far as I can toward Minnesota - tomorrow I'll probably shoot a few more plates in North Dakota by Fargo, I don't think I've ever been to this state and feel that at least 3 more plates are called for before I leave.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Singing off,</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/07/one-month-on-road.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-8705775717165719225Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:57:00 +00002013-07-06T23:57:18.083-07:00Polaroids and Memories from 2013 MT Rainbow Gathering&nbsp; As some of you may remember me from posts from last June or July I make a yearly pilgrimage to a wonderful event called Rainbow Gathering.&nbsp; This year is was conveniently held right on the way of my perimeter run and so I could not help but stop by, even though time was limited.&nbsp; Here are some memories and Polaroid images from those fantastic three days.<br /><br />&nbsp; Last year I took the bus to the Gathering in Tennessee.&nbsp; It was completely worth it (after all the very idea of building a darkroom in a school bus came to me at my first Rainbow in OR 1997), but having a big rig at the Gathering turned out to be more pain in the neck than I was looking for.&nbsp; I had to be&nbsp; checking on it constantly and going back to 'Bus Village' at any Gathering can take anywhere from 30minutes to 2 hours, so a lot of time was wasted on that, plus the energy by the road is so different from the one that prevails in the woods and it's not my favorite energy.&nbsp; So this time I left Gilli behind in Missoula and caught a ride with a friend of Brian.<br /><br />&nbsp; She is a very nice girl, but her behavior perpetuates my perplexity with female half of out population...&nbsp; She is 24 and this was her first gathering 'without mom', so something she's been waiting for is a 'rainbow fling'.&nbsp; I have no quarrels with such self-assigned destruction, but c'mon - you can find a better guy to mess around with than what she fished out...&nbsp; Seriously, the Gethering is full of mindful, kind and respectful young men.&nbsp; It may be true that most of them don't represent anything close to 'husband material', but at least there's something in the gray matter there that's intriguing.&nbsp; No, the two guys I saw her last with were the most pathetic losers that you will ever find in the woods - hip-hop wannabes with nothing to say and vacant eyes.&nbsp; Oh well, to each their own, at least she's got her 'rancher guy' to go back to when she gets back.&nbsp; She says that she's always wanted to live on the ranch and this guy has one, so she's going with him in the long run...<br /><br />&nbsp; Enough of that though, let's concentrate on the actual Gathering.&nbsp; This was my 14th National Rainbow Gathering in a row.&nbsp; Since the year 2000 I have not missed a single one and I am very happy with that.&nbsp; In reality I was thinking of not going, but the very thought of being in civilization on 4th of July was repugnant to me and I went even though I only had 3 days there and that's REALLY not enough time to spend at such an event.&nbsp; As it happens the 2000 Gathering was not only held also in Montana, but was also located on the exact meadow as this 2013 one, so it really felt like going home and becoming 14 years younger.&nbsp; I wish that all of the people who came in 2000 were there, but not all of them could make it for one reason or another.&nbsp; I did see a lot of old friends and made a lot of new ones as well.<br /><br />&nbsp; With me I took 4 cameras - Rolleiflex 3.5F, Stereo Realist and Polaroids 450 and 680.&nbsp; I shot 25 rolls on the Rollei and 3 on the Realist (hoping to develop all of them tomorrow at the Photographers Formulary).&nbsp; I didn't have much Polaroid film with me, so I only got about 30-35 shots from that.<br /><br />&nbsp; I am so glad that the same meadow was chosen.&nbsp; I really can't imagine a more perfect setting - large meadow with a stream running through it and surrounded by forested hills, how can it get any better?&nbsp; Here are a couple of shots that faintly convey the beauty of the spot.&nbsp; I once again express my regret about the low quality of copies...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wLWl2_9R3NM/Udj8VTZbMjI/AAAAAAAAC1w/MaBInhAR2zc/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wLWl2_9R3NM/Udj8VTZbMjI/AAAAAAAAC1w/MaBInhAR2zc/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_3.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Polaroid 600</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zXvSZmGF5SE/UdkAvVTu0vI/AAAAAAAAC2A/tkqCziJOiz0/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zXvSZmGF5SE/UdkAvVTu0vI/AAAAAAAAC2A/tkqCziJOiz0/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Fuji FP100c (Sunsets were out of this world)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp; From what I saw this Gathering was a lot better in terms of people getting out of hand with alcohol.&nbsp; The Gathering is supposed be completely alcohol-free, but in the recent years that rule has been slipping and the drunken vibe has been encroaching and ruining the good times for all.&nbsp; This time I only saw one or two people who I would have liked to put in a drink-tank and they weren't really causing trouble (yet).&nbsp; There was a lot of love in the air and someday I'll probably end up finding a wife at one of these events.... not yet though.&nbsp; The story about me trying to find love at this years' Gathering will have to be left to one-on-one conversations.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here I'll just say that mothers who should bring children to such an event should really be more mindful of their presence....&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp; I spent three days meandering the meadow and woody paths, making exposures of things and people that caught my eye and genuinely enjoying myself.&nbsp; Helped make danishes at the bakery (Lovin Ovens),&nbsp; played drums to many talented guitarists and found some silver wire for converting the two new 5x7 holders that I picked up in Missoula to take 3.5x4x5in collodion plates (now I'll be able to use the 600mm lens with that format and that will open up new zooming possibilities).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp; Here are the rest of the Polaroid images from 2013 Rainbow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ykVKGHnlpFw/UdkEUMTKaNI/AAAAAAAAC2U/sdbxUAacyhw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ykVKGHnlpFw/UdkEUMTKaNI/AAAAAAAAC2U/sdbxUAacyhw/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Girl Over Meadow, Polaroid 690 </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y3J-5W9XAts/UdkET_6Q0EI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/7lMaMp4uTJA/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y3J-5W9XAts/UdkET_6Q0EI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/7lMaMp4uTJA/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_2.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Meadow Scene, Fuji FP100c&nbsp; </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_QCsqrdmLv0/UdkEdf3HAvI/AAAAAAAAC2w/nIKeUfOj8II/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_QCsqrdmLv0/UdkEdf3HAvI/AAAAAAAAC2w/nIKeUfOj8II/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_4.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fantuzzi and Crowd, Fuji FP100c </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mdrMO9fJ0jo/UdkEcyk3c2I/AAAAAAAAC2o/K9kwn0DG6cw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mdrMO9fJ0jo/UdkEcyk3c2I/AAAAAAAAC2o/K9kwn0DG6cw/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_5.jpg" width="298" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vermin Supreme and Glowing Feather, Polaroid 690 </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JOhfIullKOQ/UdkEk39bVOI/AAAAAAAAC3A/dF6ku5CyFTg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JOhfIullKOQ/UdkEk39bVOI/AAAAAAAAC3A/dF6ku5CyFTg/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_7.jpg" width="298" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Faith, Polaroid 600 </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E9vBcuZwNMY/UdkEiK6l6BI/AAAAAAAAC24/ymQMNRjdWV4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E9vBcuZwNMY/UdkEiK6l6BI/AAAAAAAAC24/ymQMNRjdWV4/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_8.jpg" width="298" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Face Painting, Fuji FP100c </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3GAyZXCBqM8/UdkEm2PC_RI/AAAAAAAAC3I/Fp7IW79wKCQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3GAyZXCBqM8/UdkEm2PC_RI/AAAAAAAAC3I/Fp7IW79wKCQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_9.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tee-Pee entrance, Fuji FP100c </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_3NsPBfQno/UdkEUSNNMQI/AAAAAAAAC2g/ugHppMZCGVE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_3NsPBfQno/UdkEUSNNMQI/AAAAAAAAC2g/ugHppMZCGVE/s400/Photo_Palace_Rainbow_2013_10.jpg" width="298" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tee-Pee, double exposure on Fuji FP100c</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Skip this paragraph is you wish.&nbsp; This is a list of things that happened to me that I'm going to insert here with no further explanation, but that will serve as reminders to myself one day when&nbsp; I want to remember them for one reason or another: Polaroid 680 take away by the disco ball shaman,&nbsp; Ashlee in the field with fudge, axed on the first round at G-funk game (oh, I'll be back!), beauty, love, serenity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; As I mentioned before I did meet a whole lot of wonderful people whom I've known before.&nbsp; Among them was a girl who I met in Missoula just a few days earlier - Alyssa, the wonderful muse who accompanied me on my trip to Photographers Formulary.&nbsp;&nbsp; The girl who I got there with was nowhere to be found and so I was left to fend for myself as far as the ride back in concerned.&nbsp; Alyssa did say that she would give me a ride back to town, but unfortunately when I made the plan to meet her at 'rainbow noon' by a certain kitchen I forgot to explain how fluid and ephemeral the concept of 'rainbow noon' really is.&nbsp; Rainbow Noon is a time after you wake up, the sun is pretty high in the sky and kitchens have stopped serving breakfast.&nbsp; That's about as precise as it gets.&nbsp; If someone tell you to meet them at that time in any location so not be disappointed if you have to wait an hour or so.&nbsp; As much as I personally hate being late when in civilization (and people who make plans and then show up an hour or more late), when I'm at a Gathering all real clocks disappear and I tune into 'Rainbow Time'....&nbsp; I guess Alyssa and her friend were still on 'Real Time' and so I missed them by about 45 minutes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; After I actually realized that I was struck by the realization that I will be once again found on the road hitchhiking out of a Gathering - something that has not happened in about a decade now.&nbsp; I would have spent a few more days there and found a ride back, but there was an art walk in Missoula in the 5th and I felt that I needed to get back to make some gas money by doing pirate print sales.&nbsp; Summoning all my previous knowledge and courage I walked out to the road, found a wonderful little piece of cardboard and a large Sharpie made a sign saying simply - 'Missoula'.&nbsp; It didn't take long till a car with three local-looking boys picked me up.&nbsp; Right off the bat I didn't feel that this ride was going to work out, so it didn't come as a surprise when about 300 yards, after finding out that I was only willing to contribute $20 to gas funds, and to be fair $20 would have been more than needed to get back to Missoula) away they told me that they weren't really going to Missoula after all and so I had to walk back to my hitching spot.&nbsp; There were at least 4 other folks who were trying to get to the same destination, but I was adamant that I needed to get there first due to 'work obligations'.&nbsp;&nbsp; The gentleman who at the moment was in charge of directing traffic was someone who had seen me year after year on the trails in various states where Gatherings have been held and so he started pulling people over and asking them if they could take me along.&nbsp; Interestingly enough the guy who picked me up did it out of pure good-heart feeling and not because he was asked to do so.&nbsp; How do I know that?&nbsp; Well, he was deaf - there was no way he could have heard my plea for a ride.&nbsp; All he did was pull over, pull out a note book and scribble 'Missoula' on it - I knew I had my ride.&nbsp; His name is Kevin and he was actually going to the same art walk as I was.&nbsp; He is studying art right now and was looking forward to experiencing local flavors and talents.&nbsp; The ride went by smoothly and soon I was back in a city with all its traffic, buildings and lights.&nbsp; In my heart I knew I could have stayed in the woods for another few weeks, but I also knew that my gas funds are going to run low very soon and so I picked up Gilli and headed downtown.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; The art walk was good and in combination with this morning's farmers market I made enough money to fill the gas tank and maybe get myself a hotel room in the next few days once I get tired of sleeping on the narrow bench of the bus.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Once the market was over I headed back out into the wilderness of northern Montana.&nbsp; The plan is to visit Photographers Formulary once again tomorrow.&nbsp; Not only did I seem to completely misplace the tintype portrait of Bud and Lynn that I promised to them (I truly hate when that happens - I mean the bus isn't that big!&nbsp; Where in the world can that plate be?!), but I would also love to use their beautiful darkroom to develop and possibly even proof the film from the Gathering.&nbsp; On my way up I made this tintype of Salmon Lake.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d6nq4HqlAU0/UdkMUXY9e6I/AAAAAAAAC3Y/2VYXDdI3bx8/s1600/Photo_Palace_tintype_Salmpn+_Lake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d6nq4HqlAU0/UdkMUXY9e6I/AAAAAAAAC3Y/2VYXDdI3bx8/s400/Photo_Palace_tintype_Salmpn+_Lake.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; I don't normally get those white marks...&nbsp; They are commonly referred to as 'comets' and the description of their cause in the books that I have read so far make little to no sense at all when I analyze this particular shot and its imperfections...&nbsp; Well, I guess I'll test out my own theories about their cause and hopefully I won't see these little buggers again.&nbsp; I still like the image, so I decided to keep it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Now I am stilling in the dining area of the biggest restaurant/hotel/bar/store thing in the town of Seeley Lake - a tiny place that you would blow by on he highway if not for speed limit signs that slow you down from 75 to 30 in a rapid succession.&nbsp; There is a karaoke madness going on right next to me and I'm having a pretty tough time concentrating, so please forgive me if this post was less coherent and photo-related as the other ones, but I didn't want to wait longer and forget more things that happened to me in the past few days.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Tomorrow - more plates, film development and more adventures await!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anton Orlov</div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/07/polaroids-and-memories-from-2013-mt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-4144831916932818325Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:57:00 +00002013-12-24T20:30:25.885-08:00Visit to Photographers Formulary<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; When I realized that I will be passing within 100 miles of one of the best and most trusted suppliers of photographic chemistry and supplies, I could not resist the urge of paying them a visit.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.photoformulary.com/" target="_blank"><b>Photographers Formulary</b></a> has been there as long as I could remember.&nbsp; They sell raw chemistry for traditional and alternative photo processes.&nbsp; I really wanted to see the operation and meet the people behind it.&nbsp; I spoke to Bud Wilson, the owner, and started to drive up to Condon from Missoula.&nbsp; With me came Alyssa Hands - a photographer artist and singer in her own right.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It was great to have someone to keep me company on the long road.&nbsp; For a while the highways followed a river and we found a spot to make the first tintype of the day. Alyssa on a small outcrop of rocks by a stream is all the was that we needed to create the following plate.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qdHrx_MK5zA/UdHdTnX0gHI/AAAAAAAACy8/gWoc-D8kiNE/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Alyssa.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alyssa 3.5x4.5 Tintype</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The experience of being tintyped can be tiredome and at some point after we took off again Alyssa dozed off on the couch. This meant that I was left driving up a two line highway winding through the woods alone.&nbsp; This was also the first place so far where I didn't have call reception, so I was looking for the town of Condon without aid of GPS.&nbsp; By Bud I was instructed to look for large landscaping rocks, plus I was looking for some sort of activity usually associated in my mind with a town.&nbsp; Little did I realize that the town consists of a long stretch of highway with 3-4 activity-lacking structures on either end of it and 4-5 in the middle.&nbsp; The imaginary row or giant boulders never appeared either.&nbsp; I passed the town and only realized it when the bus came out of a State Forest, which I remembered seeing on a map as being way north of Condon.&nbsp; I raised the alarm to my sleeping companion and she said that if we were indeed that far north then Swan Lake was not far ahead and we should go there.&nbsp; I agreed and indeed the lake was just a few miles ahead.&nbsp; Swan Lake is a typical Montana lake - gorgeous, surrounded by mountains and pines and asking to be photographed.&nbsp; From a pullover that overlooks part of this rather elongated body of water the two following plates were made.&nbsp; </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fZ7nHAMBaE8/UdHe9wg6DrI/AAAAAAAACzU/mwJUEmMAgCg/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Swan_Lake_1.jpg" width="298" />&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Swan Lake 3.5x4.5 Ruby Glass Ambrotype </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7dZrDBN1AME/UdHe8-0gbVI/AAAAAAAACzM/3BRem2Xtvcw/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Swam_Lake_2.jpg" width="298" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Swan Lake 2 3.5x4.5 Tintype</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While these plates were being washed a tired-looking bicyclist pedaled past us, but turned around with the word 'Ok, educate me'.&nbsp; We had a nice conversation&nbsp; about photography, tintypes and traveling alone.&nbsp; Turns out the guy is from California and was on a Great Divide ride, which he started in El Paso TX and was about to finish by the Canadian border.&nbsp; He said that just that morning came out of a 30mi off-highway run and it went through the forest without him seeing a soul, so he decided to come back to civilization and bike on the major highway for a while.&nbsp; He was very thankful for the explanation of the process of wet plate photography and said we made his day.&nbsp; That's always nice to hear, but the day was not over yet and we need to get back and find out destination.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; With Alyssa awake it was much easier to find the town.&nbsp; When she saw two or three building on the side of the road, which to me would have appeared unoccupied, she said that that's post office and store and we must be entering the town.&nbsp; Photographers Fomulary was not too far now and we were told by some folks at the store to look for a Bed and Breakfast sign.&nbsp; It appeared that the rocks that I was looking for were pretty much all on the property and they were visible only if someone knows what to look for.&nbsp; They are indeed beautiful and I drove carefully between them, feeling like I'm entering a mysterious site not unlike Stonehenge.&nbsp; </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Bud and Lynn Wilson came out to greet us and here they are on board Gilli for a short tour.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LtvXC7FN8dE/UdHhuKKo_pI/AAAAAAAACzk/AtAi4poKzF8/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Bud_and_Lynn.jpg" width="298" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;What a nice and pleasant couple they are.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oUZqHRojmds/UdHiGB7OvAI/AAAAAAAAC0Q/QyVJcfx05GE/s320/Photo_Palace_Bus_Photo_Formulary_bus_and_barn.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; After Gilli was tucked into a nice shady spot I was given a tour and felt like I stepped inside of a dream.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The tour started in the dining room that has an amazing collection of alternative prints and plates.&nbsp; A great inspiration to any photographer who might want to experiment with a new printing technique.&nbsp; I immediately wanted to try them all.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-55GE0Jz1mmQ/UdHiCyDDYsI/AAAAAAAACz0/9UEI2q_wAPk/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Photo_Formulary_Dining.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next was the darkroom.&nbsp; This is where they hold workshops and I must say that this is one of the best equipped, yet not overstuffed, darkrooms that I have seen so far.&nbsp; The Saunders enlargers all have the correct black and white heads on them, and there is even an 8x10 enlarger built on a Besseler base.&nbsp; In fact there is another darkroom for processes requiring UV light - another well-maintained workspace in which a small group of people can be comfortable learning a craft of making images the old-school way.&nbsp; A third room is dedicated to making computer-generated negatives that are used by most today to make their contact prints.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4333055182421634626" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9HrVgY-evPk/UdHiC7MmLkI/AAAAAAAACz4/NjtVG3EVd7Y/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Photo_Formulary_Darnrook.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Darkroom 1</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Their chemistry space was the one that really made my heart drop.&nbsp; As I mentioned Photographers Formulary supplies small quantity of chemistry needed for pretty much every photo process known and in front of me all those chemicals were lined up neatly upon their shelves.&nbsp; Only wen seeing this display with my own eyes did I realize how close to alchemy photography really is.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TCPBeLssMC8/UdHiF1dLb-I/AAAAAAAAC0U/ulJm9jXa3_4/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Photographers_Formulary_1.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; After I stopped looking at all the nifty photo gadgets in the darkroom and being in imagining the possibilities that all the chemistry in front of me presented I saw that there was still time to make some plates and excused myself for the bus.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The property is very neat and presents a plethora of photogenic views.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was getting late, but I was able to pull off the following three tintypes using a Kodak 2D 8x10 camera with Darlot Pertval lens.&nbsp; I had a reducing back on, so my plates here are 4x6in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-laHVPrFxPas/UdHiIuR7UVI/AAAAAAAAC0k/7sneFTspCxQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Photo_Formulary_Bus.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barn and Gilli in Backround </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PJmFuqlUMtE/UdHiMBrjKeI/AAAAAAAAC1M/NxKZ4YQG8fA/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Photo_Formulary_Stonehenge.jpg" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rocks</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JFETgG8xUns/UdHiI4F775I/AAAAAAAAC0o/z8cDeMY4-1o/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Photo_Formulary_Cart.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wagon </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; By this time the sun was going down rather fast (in fact in the Wagon shot above you can see that the right lower part of the image is black because in the 4 minutes that I was prepping the plate a shadow crept up and covered that part of the image).&nbsp; I thought to myself "what would be a fun shot that I can finish the day and that can be done quickly?".&nbsp; I looked around for something challenging and saw the horse pen.&nbsp; I have never tried to make a wet plate photograph of any live animal before and that seemed like it HAD to be done fast, so I decided to try it.&nbsp; I set the camera next to the pen and went in the darkroom.&nbsp;&nbsp; After the plate was coated and was being soaked in silver nitrate I came outside to see where the horse was and repositioned the camera closer to where I needed to be and did some rough focusing and framing.&nbsp; Then it was back into the bus to put the plate in a holder. Quickly back to the camera, refocus, horse turns, refocus, put the plate in, horse turns, refocus, refocus, plate in, lens cap off, lens cap on! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e2aRxok51GY/UdHiLy-FGsI/AAAAAAAAC1E/f5U3h75Ye-w/s320/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Photo_Formulary_Horse_1.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Horse 1</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; By the time it was processed the sun has gone away and Alyssa and I decided to go see what's happening at the local bar.&nbsp; The story of how we got there, who picked us up and who we met at the bar is too long and fun to tell right now, so it will be saved for the eventual book.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The following day I did more plates in the morning and here are the best two.&nbsp; Alyssa had to back at work, so we had to leave by noon. This time I did the plates with a 4x5 camera so the sizes are 3.5x4.x5in.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ozQ-G_fALMA/UdHiJBaFxDI/AAAAAAAAC0s/91ziy-qvElc/s320/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Photo_Formulary_Compound.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Photographers Formulary Compound</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2dOdDb7jyxA/UdHiMOFG6sI/AAAAAAAAC1I/kOoMQpLQ9Fg/s320/Photo_Palace_Bus_Tintype_Photo_Formulary_Horse_2.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Horse 2 (same shooting procedure as Horse 1)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; By the way, there are collodion gremlins on the bus.&nbsp; This has happened before and I have no idea who else to blame.&nbsp; I took a wonderful portrait of Bud and Lynn and promised to send it to them after varnishing.&nbsp; Now can not find it for the life of me!&nbsp; I know it was on the bus, but where...&nbsp; The space is really not that big...&nbsp; Gremlins!</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On my way out I picked up some more chemistry needed for the trip.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I highly encourage anyone interested in photography to take one of many <a href="http://www.workshopsinmt.com/" target="_blank">WORKSHOPS</a> offered by Photographers Formulary.&nbsp; You can stay at their <a href="http://www.standingstonebandb.com/" target="_blank">Standing Stones bed and breakfast</a> (breakfast is absolutely delicious by the way), meet Bud and Lynn.&nbsp; In fact I would recommend staying there even if it's just for a night when you are passing through.&nbsp; You will not regret it - experience of a lifetime!&nbsp; I know it was totally worth it for me just to stop by and I'll be looking forward to being there again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; That was a great and fruitful adventure.&nbsp; Let's see what's next!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/07/visit-to-photographers-formulary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-2273396513907471933Sat, 29 Jun 2013 07:12:00 +00002013-06-29T00:12:51.941-07:00Idaho and The Tintype Run<br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; First off here are the two promised tintypes from Spokane WA.&nbsp; For some reason the iPhone refuses to take god copies of these, so these images are still a lot less sharp than the original plates.&nbsp; Oh well - I really probably should have brought my 5DII on this trip, but I wanted to make this as analog of a trip as possible and since the 5D would only be used to copy the plates I figured I should leave space for real cameras instead.&nbsp; Now I kinda wish I had it since the iPhone liked to pick up color where there is none and it's really nowhere near as sharp as the Canon.&nbsp; I'll have to make good copies of all these plates when I make it back to San Diego and post them on my website - that will be a great reason to actually update that thing...</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cq-3FHDEw6o/Uc5yag3crQI/AAAAAAAACyU/vdfrBUMV7o4/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Spokane1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cq-3FHDEw6o/Uc5yag3crQI/AAAAAAAACyU/vdfrBUMV7o4/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Spokane1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zB1ie0-W0aM/Uc5yaigygiI/AAAAAAAACyY/5L5ASpGXShM/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Spokane2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zB1ie0-W0aM/Uc5yaigygiI/AAAAAAAACyY/5L5ASpGXShM/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Spokane2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After seeing the sunset in Spokane and making the above plates I drove east until I reached Post Falls Idaho.&nbsp; There I filled up with diesel (which is a bit cheaper in ID than in WA) and found a dead end street that I thought I wouldn't be bothered on if I park there for the night.&nbsp; It was out of the way, behind an industrial park and close to a river with only one house farther up the road visible on GPS satellite image.&nbsp; I actually did some varnishing starting at 1am and so I didn't get to sleep until about 2:30.&nbsp; I like to keep on top of the varnishing process not only because it will prevent my plates from oxidizing, but also because it's quite a time-consuming process in itself, and if I were to fall behind on it and collect more than 10-15 plates it would take forever and a half and I'd inhale more alcohol fumes than I really would like to.&nbsp; Unfortunately my calculation about the street being quiet didn't pan out and at 6am exactly someone drove by at high speed while blasting electronic music like it was a mobile rave or an art car at Burning Man.&nbsp; I tried to go back to sleep, but not 5 minutes later they drove back with the same song still on and after that the sun was starting to hit the windows and it became too bright to sleep.&nbsp; I like to get more then 3.5 hours of sleep per night, but what's a guy to do?</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I decided to explore the town where I ended up in, especially considering that my trek through Idaho was not going to be too long - I-90 goes right through the skinniest part of the state and if I didn't stop I could have been done with the whole state in 1-1.5 hours.&nbsp; Upon taking the side streets I found the following scenes right by a mill.&nbsp; The camera has to be set up for a while, so a manager came out and asked me how come there was a camera pointed at 'his building'.&nbsp; Apparently he thought I was an environmentalist of some sort and that I was collecting evidence...&nbsp; I asked him if they were polluting and he said they didn't.&nbsp; I didn't have time to do a full inspection and neither am I qualified to do that, so I had to take him at his word on that fact.&nbsp; The tintype of the building actually came out really great - one of the best tonal ranges I have gotten so far.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7JF2kXuj2DM/Uc5yW6Dyd2I/AAAAAAAACyE/LdXX5QTkwUs/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Post_Falls_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7JF2kXuj2DM/Uc5yW6Dyd2I/AAAAAAAACyE/LdXX5QTkwUs/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Post_Falls_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gZcyJa7Pj8w/Uc5yV3vI_HI/AAAAAAAACx4/Yw1U-ZDZYwY/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Post_Falls_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gZcyJa7Pj8w/Uc5yV3vI_HI/AAAAAAAACx4/Yw1U-ZDZYwY/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Post_Falls_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I wasn't done with the area just yet and, wanting to see what river life was all about, looked up a street that goes by the water.&nbsp; The street turned out to be a gravel private one, but there was no way to turn Gilli around and so I had to creep by the really nice waterfront houses at 5 miles per hour as the handwritten sign at the beginning of the private part requested.&nbsp; It being a private street I felt like I should ask someone if I could set the camera up on their property, so I stopped at a boat repair shop thinking that they would be OK with me walking out on one of their many docks.&nbsp; Not so.&nbsp; Apparently it's too much to let someone make art on their property.&nbsp; As I drove away I got a phone call and paused to talk with my engine still running.&nbsp; A nice old lady popped out of the house in front of which the bus was idling and after explaining what I do and why I'm on a private road (not being able to turn around was my excuse), she let me park by her garage and use one of her docks to make the following two exposures.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J7WBBgxHRJM/Uc5yXqDHlpI/AAAAAAAACyQ/PmBBBVPBCf8/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Post_Falls_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J7WBBgxHRJM/Uc5yXqDHlpI/AAAAAAAACyQ/PmBBBVPBCf8/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Post_Falls_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P6vXaTO5DnY/Uc5yXBqA_YI/AAAAAAAACyM/HSq_0xjH2mc/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Post_Falls_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-P6vXaTO5DnY/Uc5yXBqA_YI/AAAAAAAACyM/HSq_0xjH2mc/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Post_Falls_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After those I felt that Post Falls has been explored enough and got back on I-90.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not far was a beautiful lake by the name of Corte d'Alene.&nbsp; I had a great chance to gaze at it because the highway makes a pretty steep climb and I was going about 30mph.&nbsp; On the slope down I was picking up speed, but still looking at the lake with the corner of my eye.&nbsp; To my surprise and delight I saw a very cool looking statue of an old-western looking photographer with a large format camera.&nbsp; I knew I had to stop and make a tintype of that.&nbsp; What followed was a serious effort to get the plates.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; First off, as I mentioned, there was a good hill that I just got over and I didn't remember seeing an exit right on top of it.&nbsp; The next exit was about a mile and a half down the road and after taking it I pulled over to see how I'm going to get to this statue.&nbsp; The previous exit was indeed all the way back over the hill and quite a ways back, so I decided to take a side road that wound around on the other side of the highway and eventually seemed to pop right out by the lake again.&nbsp; Just my luck - the road turned out to be a mountain dirt road!&nbsp; Gilli took it rather well and I got to see some great property lots for sale and a few castle-like cabins on those lots that have already been sold.&nbsp; When I got to the paved road that runs around the lake, which I thought would lead me to the statue, there was a sign proclaiming that the road ended in 2 miles.&nbsp; I wanted to know how close to the object of my photographic desire those two miles would take me.&nbsp; The road ended in a large parking lot and the statue was nowhere in sight.&nbsp; There was a foot and bike path that went on from there, so, having already gone this far I parked and walked on to find the darn thing.&nbsp; I found it, but after looking back I thought to myself 'is it really possible to make a wet plate image with a darkroom being about a quarter of a mile away and it being about 80°F outside and what felt like 10% humidity?'.&nbsp; I was not going to give up easily though.&nbsp; Walked back to the bus, set up the chemistry, got the camera, walked to the statue, set up the camera and took this shot.&nbsp; Outlined in red on the right side of the frame is the roof of Gilli-the -darkroom-bus.&nbsp; </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kHARGh-AyUg/Uc5ybc6CxLI/AAAAAAAACyo/PekF1DtqeZ0/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_in_the_Making.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kHARGh-AyUg/Uc5ybc6CxLI/AAAAAAAACyo/PekF1DtqeZ0/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_in_the_Making.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; By the time I got to the darkroom the thermometer there read 90°F.&nbsp; Even before finishing the collodion pour I was sweating like I just ran a mile at full speed.&nbsp; While the plate was being soaked in silver nitrate I changed my jeans to shorts, shoes to shorts and took off my shirt in preparation for a run.&nbsp; I also prepared a plastic bag with water-soaked paper towels to keep the holder cool and in humid condition in hopes that it would keep the plate from drying.&nbsp; I don't run very often.&nbsp; I am a firm believer that we as humans were designed to run at full speed only in times of danger and even then only to a nearest tree that we can climb on, but this time I did run like there was a tiger chasing me and the camera was my safe zone.&nbsp; This run was up a slight incline and by the time I got to the camera I was starting to shake a little, but managed to unwrap the holder from the wet towel, stick it in the camera and press the cable release. After wrapping the holder back in the moist towel I darted back down and dove into the sauna/darkroom.&nbsp; When I ran out to the camera I actually started a timer to see how long it would take me to get back and when I got back to the bus I saw that it's been 3.5 minutes.&nbsp; The plate was as dry as I have ever seen a 'wet' plate prior to development, so I was not sure if my efforts were about to be annulled completely. As I was pouring on the developer my hands were shaking a bit and the dim red light seemed even dimmer than usual.&nbsp; Nonetheless I watched closely as an image started to form and was happy to see that detail is starting to appear.&nbsp; I actually had to add some developer because, either from the heat or from my hands trembling, by the 20 second mark there was no visible pool of it left on the surface.&nbsp; I think 30 seconds was the time I gave this plate and it seemed like the longest 30 seconds ever.&nbsp; After I rinsed and fixed it I thought that it was about 1 stop underexposed as I usually like my plates a bit brighter.&nbsp; Well, the camera was already set up and there was nothing left to do but to coat another plate and mentally prepare myself for another run.&nbsp; When I jumped out the bus for the second time I was sweating like a hog and looked pretty much like a mad man with purple gloves.&nbsp; I did notice that there was a a guy and his kids who were just about to leave loading up their truck and in the back of that truck was a bike.&nbsp; No bike has ever looked as good and I quickly proclaimed to the man that I would love to borrow his bike for a couple of minutes in the name of art.&nbsp; After finding out that I was making tintypes he quickly agreed, lowered the seat and off I went.&nbsp; The rushing wind has never felt so good against my wet skin and I was at the camera in no time.&nbsp; After adjusting the exposure and releasing the shutter I folded the tripod with the camera still on it and rode back downhill with the whole setup in my left hand while steering around a large and very spread out family with kids who suddenly appeared on the path.&nbsp; Besides kids there were two adults texting away on their phones and I must say that as far as paying attention to the surroundings they were wore than kids - kids jumped out of the way while I had to make road runner noises just to get the phone-glued adults to notice me.&nbsp; I think the time it took me to fold the tripod an the fact that on the way back the holder was no longer in a wet towel wrap meant that by the time I was back in the darkroom the second plate was as dry as the first.&nbsp;&nbsp; I again applied the developer twice and gave the same time.&nbsp; I think it was all worth it!&nbsp; Below are the results of this little story.&nbsp; I love both of the plates and have a hard time deciding which I prefer, but now am leaning toward the darker first one.&nbsp; I'll have to see how they take the varnish and give it some time to distance myself from the above experience in order to see these images more clearly for what they are vs. what I went through to make them.&nbsp; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qyMwlN6hxDg/Uc5yUWmZ11I/AAAAAAAACxw/kVRw25JVf2Y/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Photographer_Statue_Lake_Coer_d%2527Alene.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qyMwlN6hxDg/Uc5yUWmZ11I/AAAAAAAACxw/kVRw25JVf2Y/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Photographer_Statue_Lake_Coer_d%2527Alene.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I thought I was done shooting for the day, so I drove onward toward Montana on I-90.&nbsp; It didn't take me long to notice a tee-pee and to get yet another urge to make a plate or two happen.&nbsp; The place where the said tee-pee was placed is called Old Mission State Park and I got there just in the nick of time - it was 5 pm and the lady in charge of collecting visitors fees was seen walking away from her post.&nbsp; I selected a beautiful parking spot and made the following exposures.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FcbRQoRp5H0/Uc5yTUbrHMI/AAAAAAAACxo/vibGWkhjm-Q/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Old_Mission_Park_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FcbRQoRp5H0/Uc5yTUbrHMI/AAAAAAAACxo/vibGWkhjm-Q/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Old_Mission_Park_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l7IN9T3R-TA/Uc5ySF4mDoI/AAAAAAAACxc/9PibxUNCWqs/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Old_MIssion_Park_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l7IN9T3R-TA/Uc5ySF4mDoI/AAAAAAAACxc/9PibxUNCWqs/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Old_MIssion_Park_2.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After that I was definitely done for the day and drove into Montana with a sense of accomplishment.&nbsp; There are no big towns west of Missoula and I didn't feel like driving all the way there, so I pulled over and slept in a little no-stop-light town of St. Regis.&nbsp; In the morning I stopped by a coupe of antique shops and found a great little tintype that was made in 1930s.&nbsp; It loos like one of those tintypes that I've heard about - the kind that was made at a local fair and was given to the people in the shot within minutes of exposure.&nbsp; It has a really nice paper mat with art deco design and on the back are handwritten words reading 'Ain't we sweet'.&nbsp; The photo is badly darkened, probably because the photographer skipped on the archival processing in order to give the image to the customer as soon as possible and be on to the next one.&nbsp; In the shot there are two young ladies standing by a front end of a rather large automobile.&nbsp; I wonder if there is a way to brighten the image back up...&nbsp; I'll have to read up on tintype conservation and restoration.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The drive to Missoula didn't take long and I noticed a great little spot overlooking the city where there was a large dirt pull-off right on the side of the highway.&nbsp; I decided to come back there and did just that after contacting a photographer by the name of <a href="http://www.ayresphotography.com/" target="_blank">Brian H Johnson</a> with whom I was hoping to stay for the night.&nbsp; Here is a plate that I got after going back on the freeway.&nbsp; I like how there is a letter M on the side of the mountain.&nbsp; There are not too many letters that can be reversed with no loss of meaning.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1D--_f30Hlo/Uc5yRt1j8sI/AAAAAAAACxU/kTsD9Zqg0uw/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Missoula_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1D--_f30Hlo/Uc5yRt1j8sI/AAAAAAAACxU/kTsD9Zqg0uw/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Missoula_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />&nbsp; Having spoken with Brian I met him at his place where the neighbors were having a block party.&nbsp; The decorations and lighting caught my eye and I decided to do it justice by making a tintype as the folks neighbors on.&nbsp; I think this is a Very American plate.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tVBnAB3Xdx4/Uc5ySQyXmhI/AAAAAAAACxg/qc5ShX9UheA/s1296/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Missoula_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tVBnAB3Xdx4/Uc5ySQyXmhI/AAAAAAAACxg/qc5ShX9UheA/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Missoula_2.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now it's past midnight and I should really get to bed.&nbsp; Tomorrow is an exciting day - I have a trip planned to Photographer's Formulary and can't wait to get up there so I can tell you all about it in the next post.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/06/idaho-and-tintype-run.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-6214312008376271615Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:58:00 +00002013-06-26T22:58:08.376-07:00Washington State Tintype Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I am just east of Spokane and have a minute or two to post a quick update before pressing onward, finding a place to park for the night and varnishing all the tintypes from the past couple of days, so here it goes.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Washington state is beautiful and I truly enjoy exploring it to the best of my ability.&nbsp; That ability is hampered somewhat by the fact that the bus is so big and I can't just go on any old road in fear of not being able to turn around and by the fact that I am on a tight budget, so going even on every possible highway is not something that I can do at this point...&nbsp; If the <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/photo-palace-pan-american-wet-plate-survey/x/1866295" target="_blank">funding campaign </a>does pick up and reaches the goal I'll be able to explore a lot more and come up with even better images.&nbsp; Fingers crossed....</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Let's start in Seattle.&nbsp; Seattle is a place I have not been to in a while and I was pretty eager to reach it.&nbsp; As much as I like that city I don't think it was kind to Gilli-the-Gillig and I am not sure I'll go back there unless I have business there to attend.&nbsp; First off a tire was blown in a really tight parking lot turn (it would have been all good if there was not construction and a piece of concrete was not missing from the sidewalk... but I won't bore you with details) and then I tried parking in a tight spot (probably the last time I ever try doing that) and a very resilient branch has messed up one of the cool little eye brows that used to house a flashing red light.&nbsp; While I am hoping to find a place that may work that housing back into its original shape, the tire thing is going to be more problematic.&nbsp; I did have a spare, but it's brand new and the other three tires are worn.&nbsp; Ideally all the 4 tires in the back need to be the same height and so I am stuck finding a used tire that will match the other three.&nbsp; Seattle didn't have anything at all, so I am riding with no spare...&nbsp; In the best case it's going to cost me about $200 with the worst case (buying all 4 tires matching) $1800.&nbsp; Well, let's see what happens.&nbsp; In either case I did make a few plates there and I rather like them.&nbsp; Here is but one of 4 for you to enjoy.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xf8XQtxU66o/UcvL_or5BWI/AAAAAAAACvk/_6z7sXaGhQg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Seattle_Railroad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xf8XQtxU66o/UcvL_or5BWI/AAAAAAAACvk/_6z7sXaGhQg/s320/Photo_Palace_Seattle_Railroad.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In Seattle I met with a wonderful photographer with whom I only wish to have had a chance to spend more time.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.daniel-carrillo.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Carillo</a> makes daguerreotypes and is in the process of building a studio, so we met in the parking lot of Home Depot where he was picking up supplies.&nbsp; Next time I'm in the area I'll have to stop by and see some of his plates live.&nbsp; I had a nice surprise at that same Home Depot lot - a random guy walked over and asked 'So, what's the story with the Gillig?'.&nbsp; I'm always happy when people notice the bus for what it is, but to see someone adress it directly as a Gillig is rather unusual.&nbsp; Turns out his father was a salesman for Gillig in Hayward CA for over 25 years and we had a nice chat complete of course with lots of picture taking of the interior.&nbsp; I think his dad will be happy to see the work that was done to Gilli and to hear that she could have been sent all the way to Germany, but fate kept her in USA and now she is continuing to work in education.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While in Seattle I stayed with <a href="http://www.heatherperera.com/" target="_blank">Heather Perera</a> - one of the admins in the Film Shooters group on Facebook, a place I like to visit and post in.&nbsp; She shoots a lot of film and does it well, so it was really nice not only to take a load off and to stay in a bed for a couple of nights, but to converse with a fellow&nbsp; film-head and to also make a tintype of her and her lovely son.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After Seattle I headed east on I-90.&nbsp; I took a few detours and followed some highways that run parallel to the main one to find some more shooting opportunities.&nbsp; First one came as I passed by Yakima River.&nbsp; I couldn't resist stopping to capture its peaceful flow.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brD3h1YT65I/UcvMgyrr0yI/AAAAAAAACxA/0PqGBubMlmw/s1600/Photo_Palace_Yakima_River.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brD3h1YT65I/UcvMgyrr0yI/AAAAAAAACxA/0PqGBubMlmw/s400/Photo_Palace_Yakima_River.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It was getting toward the evening and the clouds were really the only thing that one could lay their eyes upon on this rather desolate stretch of the highway, so I decided to pull over at a rest area by some windmills and to experiment with capturing clouds on collodion.&nbsp; Wet plate collodion is actually blue sensitive, so seeing clouds is rather rare and getting them to show up on purpose requires a little bit of trickery, especially if you want to get any detail at all in the landscape below.&nbsp; This was my second attempt and I think it worked out rather well save for some strange small black spots that decided to show up out of nowhere.&nbsp; Normally I would be worried about them, but since they were nowhere to be seen on the previous plate nor on the next ones I am writing them off to some malicious collodion fairies that decided to play a trick on me.&nbsp; Still, the detail in this plate is rather sweet and the distant hills actually surprised me by showing a faint hint of tone.&nbsp; No iPhone can capture the depth of a real tintype or the experience of holding one in your hand and seeing the light play upon the surface as you tilt it back and forth.&nbsp; Alas, here's the best I could do.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AgF-yxtvJMY/UcvMgEmX48I/AAAAAAAACw4/8lkGRt2gEKY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Windmills_Off_I90.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AgF-yxtvJMY/UcvMgEmX48I/AAAAAAAACw4/8lkGRt2gEKY/s400/Photo_Palace_Windmills_Off_I90.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next on the map was a sleepy little place called Vantage.&nbsp; It lays right on the side of the Columbia river and I decided to stop there for the night.&nbsp; While waiting for the sun to come down I made this tintype and Polaroid.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CNjSqGlCRkw/UcvMerxgyWI/AAAAAAAACww/eoyiT8r0VLY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Vantage_Truck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CNjSqGlCRkw/UcvMerxgyWI/AAAAAAAACww/eoyiT8r0VLY/s400/Photo_Palace_Vantage_Truck.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h25IPPta-fE/UcvMZkebNHI/AAAAAAAACwg/W3AYwJsno00/s1600/Photo_Palace_Vantage_Polaroid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h25IPPta-fE/UcvMZkebNHI/AAAAAAAACwg/W3AYwJsno00/s400/Photo_Palace_Vantage_Polaroid.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning I pressed on and decided to take a longer road that eventually met back up with I-90.&nbsp; Along it I passed by a place with a grand name of Royal City - nothing could relate its grandeur more that this tintype.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rcAsc7K5KJk/UcvMInfHQ3I/AAAAAAAACv4/kGcp7OnkD6Q/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Royal_City_WA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rcAsc7K5KJk/UcvMInfHQ3I/AAAAAAAACv4/kGcp7OnkD6Q/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Royal_City_WA.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next was another place with an ambitious name - Ritzville.&nbsp; I did not explore it too much, but here is a nice place from there.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BWJZcCFYnyU/UcvMCOFfl9I/AAAAAAAACvw/cvcysc8i_4U/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Ritzville_WA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BWJZcCFYnyU/UcvMCOFfl9I/AAAAAAAACvw/cvcysc8i_4U/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Ritzville_WA.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Driving on toward Spokane on 90 I noticed a town just off the highway that looked like it was full of possible shooting opportunities and I decided to pull over by a church there. &nbsp; The place is called Sprague and it seems to have been completely untouched by recent history.&nbsp; I spent a couple of hours there with the four following plates resulting from that stay.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rHS186Zo_CQ/UcvMQIaXMII/AAAAAAAACwI/KtxF82I68bk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Sprague_WA_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rHS186Zo_CQ/UcvMQIaXMII/AAAAAAAACwI/KtxF82I68bk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Sprague_WA_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U2dR81l8nhw/UcvMamigjFI/AAAAAAAACwo/Nd1CpCAQ1Sk/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Sprague_WA_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U2dR81l8nhw/UcvMamigjFI/AAAAAAAACwo/Nd1CpCAQ1Sk/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Sprague_WA_4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wbo9LW1mDhE/UcvMTJkPI1I/AAAAAAAACwY/hGsjQ7kxr9A/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Sprague_WA_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wbo9LW1mDhE/UcvMTJkPI1I/AAAAAAAACwY/hGsjQ7kxr9A/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Sprague_WA_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EW98mS6UGmQ/UcvMLGZW_QI/AAAAAAAACwA/aOHFAUPDW9g/s1600/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Sprague_WA_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EW98mS6UGmQ/UcvMLGZW_QI/AAAAAAAACwA/aOHFAUPDW9g/s400/Photo_Palace_Tintype_Sprague_WA_1.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While passing through Spokane I did stop to capture two more plates with the clouds at sunset, but upon looking at the quick copies that I have done with my phone I see that they are way below par and you my dear reader will have to wait until the next update to see them as right now is not the time for me to go make another copy - it's dark, I'm getting tired and should really get to a place where I can focus on varnishing and sleeping.&nbsp; Tomorrow I'll be exploring Idaho and then on to Montana I go!&nbsp; What a great trip...</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oLNDylC1sws/UcvL5ynllHI/AAAAAAAACvY/qFiXGrAC5VQ/s1600/Photo_Palace_Gilli_At_Sunset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oLNDylC1sws/UcvL5ynllHI/AAAAAAAACvY/qFiXGrAC5VQ/s400/Photo_Palace_Gilli_At_Sunset.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton</span><br />http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/06/washington-state-tintype-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-8773968944439054751Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:05:00 +00002013-06-22T16:05:30.625-07:00Portland and Onward<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I thought I'd type up a quicker than usual little update while I have the connection.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I made it to Oregon with no big problems.&nbsp; The only moral setback is that while I was getting my oil changed in Redding CA by the trustworthy mechanics of Freightliner there were small bits of metal found in the old oil and the guys suggested that it's possible that the pistons in the bus are starting to go....&nbsp; When I asked them how much a repair like that could cost they said that it would depend on the extent of the damage and could range from $2.500 to $10.000.&nbsp; I am really hoping that this is not going to have to be done for&nbsp; LONG time, but am now a little weary of taking Gilli all the way to Maine and then Florida.&nbsp; If the <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/photo-palace-pan-american-wet-plate-survey/x/1866295" target="_blank">indiegogo funding campaign</a> does not reach or surpass the goal I may be forced to turn back early.&nbsp; Also the tachometer that I might have mentioned in the previous post as having quit working turned out to have a broken cable.&nbsp; I really want to repair that, but I can live without it for now until I know better the state of my financial ability as that repair will cost around $400.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; One of the things I love while traveling is having random interactions with the local inhabitants of places I pass by.&nbsp; Peoples attitudes range drastically and as long as there is no harm done it's all in the name of good fun and serves as an educational opportunity for me on the subject of emotional stability and interpersonal communications. A few examples of this are as follows.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; A cowboy ranch owner a tree on whose property I was photographing while being pulled over on the side of the road stopped by right as I was all wrapped up and waiting for the plate to dry.&nbsp; He popped out from behind the bus to ask if I was broken own and needed help.&nbsp; I said no, but now really regretting not asking him to hold on for a portrait - his attire and face were extremely archetypal.&nbsp; Next time I'll think quicker.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; At the next place I pulled over to take a picture of the clouds (which is very much fun and unusual while using wet plate collodion as your medium).&nbsp; I set up my camera pointing upward, but soon noticed a portly guy on a cell phone who was continually flipping me the middle finger while leaning on his big Ford pickup truck.&nbsp; I proceeded to ignore him, which seemed to agitate him beyond whatever internal inconvenience that my bus parked across the street had already already seemed to cause.&nbsp; He started yelling and waving his hands, calling me all sorts of nasty names that are too ugly to restate here and telling me that I 'needed to go'.&nbsp; I did not see that as a fact of life an proceeded to make a really nice first attempt at shooting clouds in tintype format.&nbsp; As I was wrapping up a Sheriff showed up and said that 'someone' called in and 'anonymously' reported me and Gilli as being 'suspicious'.&nbsp; I laughed, asked the nice officer to come aboard, showed him the darkroom and the image I just made and we had a nice chat about history both visual and oral and the importance of preserving both.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next place I pulled over was a little abandoned property on highway 99.&nbsp; I was just planning on turning around there to go back and take a view of the road signs that I had just passed, but the buildings have provided a few opportunities to shoot and I decided to make some plates right there.&nbsp; One of the shots required me to go a few dozen feet into the depth of the seemingly abandoned lot so I could shoot right over the little wire fence and across the mowed field toward the white house with an old Chevy truck in front.&nbsp; While I was under the dark cloth focusing my camera I heard a car pull up on the road leading to that house.&nbsp; A guy in his 40s came out and at first he seemed rather apprehensive - saying that it was his mom's house and the property was actually his and that he was pretty baffled by the 'size of the balls I must have to do this'.&nbsp; I explained my mission and that I'm a harmless artist and do need to sometimes cross the private property boundaries in order to reach a desired picturesque perspective.&nbsp; He mellowed out rather quickly and stayed for a while to observe me both working in the darkroom and taking the shots.&nbsp; He left to go mow the giant law, but as I was cleaning up actually came back to offer me a sandwich and to inquire about how much the shot of the house could be bought for.&nbsp; Unfortunately the price was too high for him, but I gave him my card and said that if he contacted me and the plate is still not sold I might be able to work out a deal seeing how it is his place and he was nice enough not to shoot me on the spot with some high caliber weapon.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Some people are nice and god bless them for it.&nbsp; Thee is nothing one can do with people who have something stuck up up one of the go-given holes in their body and I hope they get more mellow with age and come to realize that life is too short to be pissed off at everything all the time.&nbsp; Those who are in between the two above categories just need a little talking to and also to be listened to and then their gentle and understanding side will come right out.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Last few days were spent in Portland at the cozy home of <a href="http://brandonfernandez.com/portraits/" target="_blank">Brandon Fernandez</a>.&nbsp; He's a great guy and it's always a pleasure to see him when I'm in town.&nbsp; His wet plate work is superb and he makes beautiful portrait work up to 11x14in.&nbsp; Recently he had started producing wet collodion negatives and printing platinum prints directly from those.&nbsp; I very much respect folks who do this process all analog and him going back to the historically original way for making negatives earns an A+ in my book.&nbsp; The prints are superb even having only one coating.&nbsp; Here is the man himself on the back porch in twilight showing me one of his platinum prints. The twilight is responsible for the definitely not up to par iPhone image, but I assure you the print is great and Brandon has no grain in his face.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zY4fYZpON5c/UcYe4dDVo6I/AAAAAAAACuY/KiBi8b0heZk/s1600/Brandon_Fernandez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zY4fYZpON5c/UcYe4dDVo6I/AAAAAAAACuY/KiBi8b0heZk/s400/Brandon_Fernandez.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Before I got to Brandon's place I did have a chance to explore Portland just a bit and shot some 4 wet plate images.&nbsp; Here is one of my two favorite ones from that day.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-37S6FzF5y_U/UcYfq8Ws8wI/AAAAAAAACug/vZsA9hnC65c/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Portland_Tintype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-37S6FzF5y_U/UcYfq8Ws8wI/AAAAAAAACug/vZsA9hnC65c/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Portland_Tintype.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; One thing that was waiting for me at Brandon's house was a new 80+ year old 8x20 Korona banquet camera which will serve as the replacement of the 7x17 that I was forced to abandon.&nbsp; It was a sad departure as I really felt very attached to that particular camera but I'm glad I was able to make another photographer happy by reuniting him with is and this new 8x20 will definitely do the job.&nbsp; It's not as pretty as the 7x17, and I don't feel any real special connection to it yet.&nbsp; However it's fully functional and even came with a bunch of plates, so soon you'll see some neat panoramas from it, all I have to do is secure my silver tank and find a subject that will be fitting to it.&nbsp; I think after a few years of service I will develop a real bond with this beast.&nbsp; Thank you <a href="http://blumental.us/" target="_blank">Josh Blumenthal</a> for hooking me up with this one!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K0II9bSesaY/UcYhFKpm0ZI/AAAAAAAACuw/kNqCF-KoxcI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_8x20_Korona.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K0II9bSesaY/UcYhFKpm0ZI/AAAAAAAACuw/kNqCF-KoxcI/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_8x20_Korona.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On Friday I had a print sale and Magic Lantern show at <a href="http://newspacephoto.org/" target="_blank">Newspace Center for Photography</a> - a place that I have visited before and that is staffed with some lovely enthusiastic people.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lUn0vJzl458/UcYi7pNuMjI/AAAAAAAACvA/JE-XLnLfSyg/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Newspace_Portland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lUn0vJzl458/UcYi7pNuMjI/AAAAAAAACvA/JE-XLnLfSyg/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Newspace_Portland.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; This time I also able to offer tintype portraits an as it happens did a wonderful little 4x5 of three little kids sitting on the doorstep of the bus.&nbsp; They were awesome models and only one of them moved ever so slightly during the 4 second exposure.&nbsp; The aluminum plate was coated, developed, washed, dried and varnished very quickly as the kids were getting antsy and mom wanted to not see it escalate, so I didn't even have a chance to copy it for my records.&nbsp; I assure you that it was very nice (barely any wet plate artifacts on the edges with bright an crisp exposure) and now I am happy to think of yet another one of my works as having gained its own existence for many decades, and likely centuries, to come.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; This time the Magic Lantern Show was attended by a lot fewer people, but it was the kind of people that really is worth mentioning.&nbsp; One of my college friends Perry Done is studying for his MFA in Art in Portland and another ex-Spartan Morgan Chivers, who is actually now completing his MFA in Arlington TX with concentration in glass, was in town for a glass convention with his lovely girlfriend Gene.&nbsp; Gene was also a San Jose State graduate and so we had a mini reunion after the show, caught up on what's happening in our lives.&nbsp; It was really great to see both of my school buddies with whom I had spent countless hours in the darkroom of SJSU.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now I'm on my way to Seattle and am looking forward to shooting some collodion images there.&nbsp; Hopefully I can make it to some great vantage point just west of the city by sunset and get a few good shots of the skyline.&nbsp; I have not been back to Seattle since 1997 an it's a shame because I remember really liking the vibe of that city.&nbsp; Maybe I'll even fire up the 8x20 if the view is of appropriate proportions.</span>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/06/portland-and-onward.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-5946665724439969815Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:11:00 +00002013-06-16T23:11:08.588-07:00Week One: Climax Camera and Other Things Dreams are Made Of<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It's been a week since Gilli and I left San Diego.&nbsp; It seems like so much longer than that though.&nbsp; I think this is going to be a pretty hefty update, let's see how much I can recall....</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On the last day before leaving I had a wet plate experience scheduled with Chris Whitney, a San Diego photographer who is interested in doing wet plates.&nbsp; I don't really call my sessions 'workshops' just yet as I think I need some more personal time with the process to really feel comfortable teaching.&nbsp; Instead I provide all the knowledge that I have gathered so far and give people a real hands-on chance to experience working with collodion and all the fun of making images with it.&nbsp; I encourage those who, after going through my 'experience', still want to pursue wet plate photography to take a workshop with others who teach it, buy books and read up on it, watch videos (though I really don't think there's too much value in seeing this process in Youtube....) and to just keep going with it.&nbsp; Nevertheless - Chris really enjoyed himself and he was already well versed in large format photography, so that really helped to lessen the learning curve.&nbsp; He brought along his Wista 4x5 and a lovely wife for a model.&nbsp; Here they are focusing the camera with me sitting in for the model, wiping off a plate and an example of a plate that Chris poured and developed under my supervision.&nbsp; That was his last plate of the day and I think it really came out great.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BsfD-MbT4m8/Ub6Jch9U09I/AAAAAAAACrM/kaLV05DJEWY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_workshop_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BsfD-MbT4m8/Ub6Jch9U09I/AAAAAAAACrM/kaLV05DJEWY/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_workshop_2.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WPXELlacjwM/Ub6JcUb561I/AAAAAAAACrE/nYMTBC5Pqvs/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_workshop_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WPXELlacjwM/Ub6JcUb561I/AAAAAAAACrE/nYMTBC5Pqvs/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_workshop_3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tBgv57LHHI/Ub6JchgrauI/AAAAAAAACrY/_K6tLbgBlF4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_workshop_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tBgv57LHHI/Ub6JchgrauI/AAAAAAAACrY/_K6tLbgBlF4/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_workshop_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On Sunday morning I had an early start as I had to be in Santa Monica by 8:45 to assist Jamie Johnson with a photo challenge.&nbsp; Jamie had used the facilities on board The Photo Palace Bus a couple of times in the past to make wet plate images and she is now converting one of her bathrooms into a darkroom.&nbsp; She also had me find her an entire 4x5 outfit with a modern lens, holders and even a Polaroid holder for Fuji film.&nbsp; Now all she really needs is the little stuff like tanks, trays, beakers, etc. But I'm going off-track....&nbsp; The photo challenge was a pretty nifty thing - five photographers who are all a part of a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VergePhotographers?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts" target="_blank">Verge Photographers Collective</a> were given a non-professional model for one hour and were challenged to create a masterpiece photograph using whatever means possible.&nbsp; That hour also included and make-up and outfit changes they may desire.&nbsp; To top it all off there was a film crew filming the entire thing and a gallery owner who was looking to dramatize it on the spot.&nbsp; Jamie went first because we were worried that the sun would come out and start heating up the bus and the chemistry along with it.&nbsp; In fact the desire of the gallery owner to add a dramatic twist was so great that toward the 30 minute mark of Jamie's shoot he decided to cut the time allotted from 1 hour to 45 minutes!&nbsp; Jamie was able to pull three plates and one of them was a real success - I hope she wins!&nbsp; I can't show you the plate as it is still top secret, but here is Gilli and Jamie's new 4x5 and the next photographer using Gilli as a background prop with the film crew scattered about the frame.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FWA8sSUvDNw/Ub6O4dFYT_I/AAAAAAAACrk/ZR5jQukPY5U/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Jamie_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FWA8sSUvDNw/Ub6O4dFYT_I/AAAAAAAACrk/ZR5jQukPY5U/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Jamie_1.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9c90fADFJ_0/Ub6O4n_ZGtI/AAAAAAAACro/DYKm7bzDKEY/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Jamie_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9c90fADFJ_0/Ub6O4n_ZGtI/AAAAAAAACro/DYKm7bzDKEY/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Jamie_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Sunday evening was spent in a gorgeous location in the foothills of Pacific Palisades - a peaceful neighborhood of LA.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is a view of the lights of the city as seen from the back yard of the house I stayed in.&nbsp; Doesn't LA look like some serene place you'd like to visit from all the way up here?</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w8lAt4kTa-I/Ub6QXo-sn5I/AAAAAAAACr8/gJJ-nX0aQcU/s1600/LA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w8lAt4kTa-I/Ub6QXo-sn5I/AAAAAAAACr8/gJJ-nX0aQcU/s400/LA.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning I was shooing a portrait for the occupant of the house.&nbsp; She has been living there for quite a number of years and now she was notified by the owners that she needed to move and the sweet little 1970s house would be torn down to be replaced with a new 2-story one with a basement and all that... We did a really nice 8x10 plate, but in the excitement of what happened next I completely forgot to get a copy of it with my trusty iPhone.&nbsp; What happened next is something that only seems to happen in movies and I haven't even dreamed about. </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; At the end of the shoot I was starting to clean up the chemistry in a small bathroom that I converted to a darkroom for the purpose of the shoot and decided to check my email.&nbsp; There I found a message from a San Diego museum that a curator at <a href="http://www.mopa.org/" target="_blank">SDMOPA</a> <a href="http://www.scottbdavis.com/" target="_blank">Scott Davis</a> (whose <a href="http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2012/12/inteview-with-scott-b-davis.html" target="_blank">interview</a> you may have read on here) had given them my information.&nbsp; This museum was looking to decommission a camera and the email sent to me by the archivist was titled 'Early Large Format Camera'.&nbsp; It stated that the camera has nothing to do with the mission of the museum and that it simply had to go and all that was asked of the recipient was to arrange pick-up.&nbsp; As you may have figured out by reading some of my posts I am always interested in seeing vintage equipment rescued and put back to use and so I eagerly opened one of the four attached images.&nbsp; After it was done downloading I nearly screamed of excitement and felt my heart pounding at three times its normal rate.&nbsp; Here is that picture.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3ca6HSDbYsE/Ub6UQPk2zVI/AAAAAAAACsM/RfHW9hJmE4w/s1600/Climax_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3ca6HSDbYsE/Ub6UQPk2zVI/AAAAAAAACsM/RfHW9hJmE4w/s400/Climax_1.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It is difficult to tell in this picture how big the camera is, but you must agree that it looks substantial.&nbsp; It is obviously a studio camera from late 1800s and that's all I needed to know.&nbsp; I ran, more like skipped, to inform the lady I was staying with that 'something came up' and I have to rent a car and drive down to San Diego ASAP.&nbsp; Within an hour I was on I-405 weaving through traffic like there were no highway patrolmen in existence.&nbsp; In order to make it to the museum before they closed I had to beat rush hour traffic in both LA and San Diego and that meant making it from Pacific Palisades to North Park in less than 3 hours.&nbsp; I made it in 2.5 with time to spare.&nbsp; My good friend Justin Edelman had agreed to help me out with this and we used his girlfriends SUV to head to the museum.&nbsp; In the lobby we were met by a lovely 20-something year old archivist who led us upstairs to the hallway where the camera resided at the time.&nbsp; Rounding the corner I was filled with trepidation like a young man who was about to meet his arranged marriage wife for the first time.&nbsp; Unlike many such men my future wife ended up being a true beauty - tall of stature and with fine sophisticated finish.&nbsp; At the sight of the camera (yes, we are still talking about a camera) I instantly fell in love and a bewildered smile got planted on my face and lingered on for the next few days .&nbsp; Here I am next to the beautiful beast with that very same smile.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4qcsBaIZ9pI/Ub6XmdmIgwI/AAAAAAAACsc/rl21FJsNI-4/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Climax_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4qcsBaIZ9pI/Ub6XmdmIgwI/AAAAAAAACsc/rl21FJsNI-4/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Climax_2.jpg" width="298" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now it is much easier to see the true scope of what I was faced with.&nbsp; The whole thing was just about 5ft tall and the wood... oh the wood....&nbsp; I quickly realized that in front of me was one of the biggest studio cameras ever made - a monstrous 20x24in machine and in nearly new condition at that.&nbsp; The nameplate on the front read 'The Scovill &amp; Admas Co.&nbsp; New York' and the one on the rolling stand proclaimed 'E. &amp; H.T. Anthony and Co.", I was soon told that the model is called Climax, but I'm getting ahead of myself. &nbsp; Simply getting this camera out to the elevator required taking off the cast iron wheel that raises and lowers the stand.&nbsp; Getting the whole thing into the SUV was a whole other challenge, but nothing that a seasoned Tertis-playing Russian couldn't handle.&nbsp; In the end everything including the fantastic Benster universal adjustable plate holder with a dozen nesting inserts and an 11x14 reducing back with three holders for it was safely packed and we left after shaking the hand of the woman who had just made me the happiest man on Earth (no she didn't agree to marry me, though I probably should have asked...).&nbsp; Now this beautiful camera is resting back home awaiting my return.&nbsp; When I come back I intend on making an acrylic wet plate back for it (the original Benster back was for dry plates and though I could very much use it for wet plate photography it would be a darn shame to mess it up by dripping silver nitrate into it).&nbsp; What a beginning to the trip, eh?&nbsp; Now I really have something to look forward to upon my return!&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The trip must go on, as I am sure Jerry Garcia must have proclaimed many times in the 60s.&nbsp; I waited out the traffic and zoomed back to Pacific Palisades to spend one more might there.&nbsp; Luckily nobody disturbed the chemistry that was still left in the bathroom and I was able to neatly pack it all up before returning the rental car in the morning.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Next stop was Ventura and the house of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/luthergerlach" target="_blank">Luther Gerlach</a> - an incredibly talented and knowledgeable photographer I met through the online wet plate circles.&nbsp; I was looking forward to meeting him for a while in hopes of seeing a few of his mammoth 20x24in tintypes live.&nbsp; As I keep saying - there is no way to relate something like that on any computer screen, so wanted to behold them with my own eyes.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Luther turned out to be a very nice guy, someone who has been the world of alternative photography for over 30 years.&nbsp; I knew he was teaching classes, but I was unaware that he also frequently lectured on photography at the Getty museum.&nbsp; Luther had built his own 20x24 camera.&nbsp; He had also built a mobile darkroom in a much smaller space that Gilli, but it is every bit as functional.&nbsp; Here is the camera resting on just inside his traveling lab and Luther in the background by a nice stainless steel sink (which I now really wish I had installed in my darkroom - plastic is fine when you are working with traditional B&amp;W, but when you get into alternative processes you have to deal with some majorly corrosive stuff...).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HR1Tx0YVn5w/Ub6dA-QLYeI/AAAAAAAACs0/BYUowmKel7U/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Luther_Gerlach_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HR1Tx0YVn5w/Ub6dA-QLYeI/AAAAAAAACs0/BYUowmKel7U/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Luther_Gerlach_3.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; We had lunch and talked wet plate and then Luther was kind enough to invite me for a short visit to his loft.&nbsp; There I was confronted with a collection of cameras and lenses that made me weak in the knees.&nbsp; The man claims to have an example of EVERY brass Dallmeyer lens made and I don't doubt him for a minute.&nbsp; The amount of ancient camera gear was simply staggering and I instantly felt at home.&nbsp; To top it all off there was a plethora of stunning photographs, both vintage and new, all over the walls and I could have spent an entire day soaking it all in visually.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dxVHxvXSjP0/Ub6e6WjHELI/AAAAAAAACtE/EtBBItN8e_Y/s1600/Luther_Gerlach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dxVHxvXSjP0/Ub6e6WjHELI/AAAAAAAACtE/EtBBItN8e_Y/s400/Luther_Gerlach.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xwGew-rwhyI/Ub6dAQxIXOI/AAAAAAAACsw/iiETiksCiyM/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Luther_Gerlach_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xwGew-rwhyI/Ub6dAQxIXOI/AAAAAAAACsw/iiETiksCiyM/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Luther_Gerlach_2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Toward the end of the visit I asked to see the catalog that Luther had mentioned he had upon seeing my new camera on Facebook.&nbsp; Here is the Climax camera model and all the sizes it was offered in in 1890.</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7umP6E9QZv8/Ub6gNIZCI3I/AAAAAAAACtU/FBrZq4B3KZE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Cliimax_Catalog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7umP6E9QZv8/Ub6gNIZCI3I/AAAAAAAACtU/FBrZq4B3KZE/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Cliimax_Catalog.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;As you can see, historically there were two sizes bigger than 20x24, but Luther said that in all his years he had never seen or heard of those still in existence, so I wonder how many were produced and if any have survived through the ages.&nbsp; I bet they are hiding away in some museum basement, probably being eaten by termites or rats...&nbsp; As much as I love museums and the preservation work that they are engaged in I think functional pieces of equipment lose their souls when not in use and I'm glad to have an opportunity to give a second life to my most recent find.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After leaving Ventura I headed north once again and reached Bay Area in just under 6 hours.&nbsp; I once again met up and stayed with my friend Ryan Kalem - the man who was instrumental in the purchase and construction of The Photo Palace Bus.&nbsp; It was rather late, so we didn't have too much time to catch up as he had to be at work in the morning, but the brief time we spent together totally brought on some excellent memories.&nbsp; I still wish he would someday be able o join in on this adventure, I think we have great synergy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning I headed down to San Jose - the home of my Alma Mater SJSU.&nbsp; There I visited the old lab where I spent all too many sleepless nights and was happy to find Keay Edwards, a teacher and vigilant lab tech, at his post.&nbsp; He blessed me with a 150mm process lens, which, upon my return to the bus, I found to have plenty of coverage for 8x10.&nbsp; Now I have a really sweet, super light and compact ultra wide angle lens.&nbsp; I also decided to take a shot of downtown San Jose as Silicon Valley is one of the places that California is now known for.&nbsp; Lucky for me my old schoolmate <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/mehrzadkarimabadi" target="_blank">Mehrzad Karimabadi</a> visited me at the location I chose to make the below image and she guarded he camera while I was coating and developing the plates.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nQcLZx6IxE8/Ub6ikE6SyzI/AAAAAAAACtk/wqtvQ2sNKv8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_San_Jose_Tintype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nQcLZx6IxE8/Ub6ikE6SyzI/AAAAAAAACtk/wqtvQ2sNKv8/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_San_Jose_Tintype.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After that I drove downtown to <a href="http://www.sjica.org/" target="_blank">San Jose ICA</a> and paid a visit to the folks I used to work with so many years ago.&nbsp; That space is really great and the people who run it make it very inviting and vibrant.&nbsp; They always have great shows and I hope to work with them in the future again and again.&nbsp; For now it was just nice to park Gilli right in front and say hello.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UyZ6mfYVpbM/Ub6jYwcd34I/AAAAAAAACtw/UtHm-iV7RM8/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_SJICA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UyZ6mfYVpbM/Ub6jYwcd34I/AAAAAAAACtw/UtHm-iV7RM8/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_SJICA.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />&nbsp; The next few days were spent in Pacifica at the welcoming house of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kirill.krylov.9" target="_blank">Kirill Krylov </a>who has been so gracious as to host me for the third time now.&nbsp; On Thursday I had planned a tintype portrait event at Golden Gate park and a few people did indeed make it and had their portraits done.&nbsp; I was parked by an old windmill and I thought it was a perfect subject for my test plate.&nbsp; Here is a resulting 4x5 ambrotype.&nbsp; The collodion was a bit too fresh, oddly enough and unlike with regular B&amp;W chemistry you want to let collodion ripen for a day or two after mixing in order for it to work better, so there is a little bit of fogging on in this image.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K9JiSIGIMTg/Ub6k1wSq6XI/AAAAAAAACuA/jLSxDLC39JI/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_Windmill_Tintype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K9JiSIGIMTg/Ub6k1wSq6XI/AAAAAAAACuA/jLSxDLC39JI/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_Windmill_Tintype.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; One of the folks who came to see the bus on Thursday was not quite ready for his portrait session, but he did contact me later and asked to stick around till Saturday so he could pose for an 8x10.&nbsp; Here is the resulting image.&nbsp; I am quite proud of it as this was the first time that I didn't have to make a test image - the first plate worked out perfectly!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tyaa4nDGuqs/Ub6ldn3QYUI/AAAAAAAACuI/CXGVbGNnreE/s1600/Photo_Palace_Bus_8x10_Ambrotype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tyaa4nDGuqs/Ub6ldn3QYUI/AAAAAAAACuI/CXGVbGNnreE/s400/Photo_Palace_Bus_8x10_Ambrotype.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; From there I once again crossed the Golden Gate Bridge and headed to Sonoma county to stay with Barbara Hoffman, the woman behind the Russian Magic Lantern Slides about which you can read in a <a href="http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/01/wwi-and-russian-revolution-photos-found.html" target="_blank">post from January</a>.&nbsp; Right as I was crossing the bridge I did notice that the tachometer was dead and hanging on 0.&nbsp; That's not really something I like to see - this is the first thing to go wrong with Gilli in the past year and and a half.&nbsp; Now I am waiting for the morning when I'll take her in to a truck shop, get her an oil change and have them take a look at the tachometer.&nbsp; Some say 'who needs a tachometer anyway?'.&nbsp; Well, I do - when I drive at night the light above it is about 10x brighter than the one above the speedometer and so I pretty much drive by it - when I'm at 2400 rpm I know I'm going 55 and that's where Gilli likes to be.&nbsp;&nbsp; Let's see how many tanks of gas this little thing will set me back....&nbsp; Oh yeah, when I'm on the road I pretty much think of my budget in terms of tanks of gas - nothing else matters.&nbsp; I have plenty of plates at least for a while (just got done cutting about 150 pieces of aluminum, plus about 40 pieces of glass) and food is very much third on the list as there are plenty of berries and fruiting trees this time of year, so if all else fails I'll be scavenging with the best of them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Tomorrow is another day!&nbsp; A day dreams are made of....</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/06/week-one-climax-camera-and-other-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-6665279846327975384Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:58:00 +00002013-06-09T16:58:39.004-07:00Pan American Wet Plate Survery Begins! Indiegogo Campaign Started and New Colloodion Images.<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Second Cross-Country Photo Palace Trip</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Today I left San Diego and headed north.&nbsp; The goal is to drive The Photo Palace Bus around the perimeter of the country and photograph as much as possible using my new favorite technique - wet plate collodion.&nbsp; The vision is to create a modern survey of American cultural and physical landscape as seen through the eyes of this immigrant artist.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I can't help but think of 19th century photographers as Timothy O'Sullivan, Alexander Gardener and all the lesser known (or completely obscure portrait artists) who had traversed this land in their&nbsp; horse-drawn Tintype Saloons.&nbsp; Following their path is both exhilarating and a great honor.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; How have the people and the landscapes changed since that time?&nbsp; What will the road show me that will be similar to what they saw?&nbsp; How will working with collodion work while going through parts of the country that are 100°F?&nbsp; Only time will tell.&nbsp; For now I am very excited to be in motion and to have the whole trip ahead of me.&nbsp;&nbsp; Gilli is running wonderfully, temperature in LA is perfect and the forecast is clear.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Funding Campaign</b></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Last night I launched a new funding campaign campaign on the crowd sourcing site Indiegogo.&nbsp; There are two goals - to cover at least the basic expenses that will be endured during this project and to distribute some of the images via perks to those who contribute.&nbsp; While having funds to travel will be essential to completing this approximately 14.000 mi run, having plates go out to supporters will be enormously gratifying to me as an artist as there is nothing I love more than knowing that someone, perhaps half way around the globe, is going to hold one of my images and feel its weight in their hands.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I urge all who read this post to <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/photo-palace-pan-american-wet-plate-survey/x/1866295" target="_blank">CHECK OUT THE CAMPAIGN,</a> spread the word about it far and wide and to contribute what they can.&nbsp; I can not do this without You and I am eternally grateful for any help that may be offered.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>New Collodion Images </b></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On a more literary note.&nbsp; A short wile ago I was lucky enough to get a 7x17 Korona view camera.&nbsp; Sadly I had to let it go due to circumstances beyond my control, but during this brief time I had a chance to make the biggest plates that I have attempted so far and got thoroughly addicted to a panoramic format.&nbsp; The modified plate holder was able to hold 6x16in plates and I made three successful images, which I present for your view below.&nbsp; The last one was my first attempt at working with collodion in a studio setting.&nbsp; Having such slow emulsion provided some difficulties, but what is life without learning and overcoming difficulties?&nbsp; Contact me if you wish to purchase any of these original plates.&nbsp; Chances are these will be the only 6x16 Ambrotypes I will ever produce (currently I am working on getting a different panoramic view camera, but it will be of a different format).</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-blAlFxK1L5g/UbUTSi-hjZI/AAAAAAAACqc/Cz74luNj4gs/s1600/Ambrotype_Lilian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-blAlFxK1L5g/UbUTSi-hjZI/AAAAAAAACqc/Cz74luNj4gs/s400/Ambrotype_Lilian.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Lillian, 6x16 Ambrotype on ruby glass</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KexfeYS7yMg/UbUTS2DmyoI/AAAAAAAACqg/eHgOM6Pczw0/s1600/Ambrotype_Xenia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KexfeYS7yMg/UbUTS2DmyoI/AAAAAAAACqg/eHgOM6Pczw0/s400/Ambrotype_Xenia.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Xenia, 6x16 Ambrotype on ruby glass</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j_7KheZc0Ok/UbUTTQ2j8aI/AAAAAAAACqs/EbXEsXVF5Q4/s1600/Ambrotype_Irene_and_Camera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j_7KheZc0Ok/UbUTTQ2j8aI/AAAAAAAACqs/EbXEsXVF5Q4/s400/Ambrotype_Irene_and_Camera.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Irene, 6x16 Ambrotype on ruby glass</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Tomorrow I am planning on meeting a very tallented photographer who also works with collodion in Ventura CA.&nbsp;&nbsp; The quality of his work has fascinated me since I saw it and I very much look forward to seeing the plates in person, interviewing him and then relating my experience to you.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/06/pan-american-wet-plate-survery-begins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-3211351867729850259Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:05:00 +00002013-04-23T00:34:28.702-07:00Wet Plate Collodion Update<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It's been a while since I posted an update and some people began to wonder if I forgot how to work a keyboard.&nbsp; To quell those worries here is a little something for all to enjoy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Since coming back to San Diego I have been knee-deep in mastering the art and craft of wet plate collodion imagery.&nbsp; Some of you probably know that this is the technique used to create Ambrotypes (on clear or black glass) and Tintypes (on metal - mostly aluminum is used today).&nbsp; The process was invented in 1850s and provides a uniquely beautiful photographic experience to both the artist and the model.&nbsp; Each image is created from scratch using some basic alchemy and work must me carried out at a rather rapid pace as the collodion must not dry out between coating and subsequent exposure and development.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even with all the care in the world, no two images will be alike and in that lays the crux of my attraction to this process.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I am eternally grateful to the people who have endured a sitting with me.&nbsp; Not having an assistant I am left to let them sit patiently by the camera while I am making the plate in the darkroom of The Photo Palace Bus.&nbsp; It takes about 4 minutes from the time that he subject is posed to the moment when I emerge from the bus and then I have to dive back into the darkroom within a minute.&nbsp; Now I understand very clearly why historically there was a need for a 'poser' - someone to situate the model and to keep them company while the photographer is 'in the dark'.&nbsp; Here are some of the images that I have recently created.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cutcZTJSizI/UXOYJPNBAMI/AAAAAAAACno/HWpOQki5Rgk/s1600/Tintype_Lauren.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cutcZTJSizI/UXOYJPNBAMI/AAAAAAAACno/HWpOQki5Rgk/s400/Tintype_Lauren.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4x5 Tintype - Laurel and Flower</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-upLvszcC1XM/UXOYa5e6_fI/AAAAAAAACnw/xCulTS1msYU/s1600/Tintype_Margo_Lauren.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-upLvszcC1XM/UXOYa5e6_fI/AAAAAAAACnw/xCulTS1msYU/s400/Tintype_Margo_Lauren.JPG" width="283" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5x7 Tintype - Margo and Laurel</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ITuhu9252Tw/UXOYuxsP0tI/AAAAAAAACn4/YlY9zIEh4Qk/s1600/Tintype_Margo_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ITuhu9252Tw/UXOYuxsP0tI/AAAAAAAACn4/YlY9zIEh4Qk/s400/Tintype_Margo_1.JPG" width="275" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5x7 Ambrotype - Margo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dsg0Rfqfhwo/UXOZU1bmYII/AAAAAAAACoQ/Qg9jc2iy23Q/s1600/Ambrotype_Jozlynn.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dsg0Rfqfhwo/UXOZU1bmYII/AAAAAAAACoQ/Qg9jc2iy23Q/s400/Ambrotype_Jozlynn.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;4x5 Ambrotype - Jozlynn</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qT69MwQkUmo/UXOZTCClwsI/AAAAAAAACoA/M3RNMyuAudY/s1600/Tintype_Jozlynn_1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qT69MwQkUmo/UXOZTCClwsI/AAAAAAAACoA/M3RNMyuAudY/s400/Tintype_Jozlynn_1.JPG" width="271" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;5x7 Tintype - Jozlynn</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Some of you may know that I am a big fan of vintage cameras.&nbsp; My collection is growing and I decided to immortalize some of the best and most classic examples by creating a tintype series of camera portraits.&nbsp; Here is the beginning of that series.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j005Fv96440/UXObGEH8YiI/AAAAAAAACoY/XDrIHck2z84/s1600/Tintype_Hasselblad.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j005Fv96440/UXObGEH8YiI/AAAAAAAACoY/XDrIHck2z84/s400/Tintype_Hasselblad.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;4x5 Tintype - Hassleblad 500CM</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cx6F4F0Se-o/UXObG_WPokI/AAAAAAAACok/mWXsRo1TyWk/s1600/Tintype_Jumelle_Stereo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cx6F4F0Se-o/UXObG_WPokI/AAAAAAAACok/mWXsRo1TyWk/s400/Tintype_Jumelle_Stereo.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; 4x5 Tintype -Jumelle Belliene&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6BgPbv_L-0I/UXObGhgaNKI/AAAAAAAACog/ugJDygrheC4/s1600/Tintype_Retins_IIIc.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6BgPbv_L-0I/UXObGhgaNKI/AAAAAAAACog/ugJDygrheC4/s400/Tintype_Retins_IIIc.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; 4x5 Tintype -Retina IIIc</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v9glQkRJz2A/UXObOvEo01I/AAAAAAAACo0/WDYWF0v2ue0/s1600/Tintype_Rolleiflex.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v9glQkRJz2A/UXObOvEo01I/AAAAAAAACo0/WDYWF0v2ue0/s400/Tintype_Rolleiflex.JPG" width="311" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; 4x5 Tintype -Rolleiflex Wide</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TjkhJibQDec/UXObOVFDBUI/AAAAAAAACow/GdZB80vQetw/s1600/Tintype_SX70.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TjkhJibQDec/UXObOVFDBUI/AAAAAAAACow/GdZB80vQetw/s400/Tintype_SX70.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; 4x5 Tintype -Polaroid SX-70</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pyq6e5WbbZE/UXObO-IeVmI/AAAAAAAACo4/I39IMjYK_JY/s1600/Tintype_Voigtlander_Bessa.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pyq6e5WbbZE/UXObO-IeVmI/AAAAAAAACo4/I39IMjYK_JY/s400/Tintype_Voigtlander_Bessa.JPG" width="313" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; 4x5 Tintype - Voigtlander Bessa</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b03P08SbQQc/UXObP2_85BI/AAAAAAAACpI/tTmx7fayWZM/s1600/Tintype_Zeiss_Ikon.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b03P08SbQQc/UXObP2_85BI/AAAAAAAACpI/tTmx7fayWZM/s400/Tintype_Zeiss_Ikon.JPG" width="312" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;4x5 Tintype - Zeiss Ikon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It's 1am and I should really get to bed.&nbsp; Today at 3pm I will be in West Hollywood doing a Magic Lantern Show.&nbsp; There is a big Russian expat community and I hope for a big turnout.&nbsp; Huge thanks to the City of West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs office for sponsoring this event.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Monday I will be shooting more wet plate images in hopes of expanding my portfolio with some quality shots.&nbsp; Once I gain enough confidence in my skills I will offer portraits and then The Photo Palace Bus will become a true old-fashioned Photo Saloon (as they used to call traveling wet plate studios during 19th century).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/04/wet-plate-collodion-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-3980150236947966034Sun, 17 Mar 2013 05:48:00 +00002013-03-16T22:53:46.657-07:00Last Leg of West Coast Tour and Summary Post<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Back in San Diego I now would like to catch up my faithful readers on what has transpired during the last part of the West Coast Tour.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; As I recall the last update was posted from my friends place in Chico.&nbsp; It was a pleasant visit and I look forward to seeing Ricardo again someday and hopefully sooner rather than later.&nbsp; Ricardo did let me know abut the existence of a bus graveyard just off I-5 in the town of Williams, which was right on my way west.&nbsp; He said there were a lot of old buses there and I was keen to see it for myself.&nbsp; The place is located right by the freeway on the north-east side of Husted Rd. exit.&nbsp; There are at least two dozen really old cool buses there all in various states of decomposition and even an old fire engine in the middle of all that chaos.&nbsp; I decided to make some exposures there and pulled out my Rolleiflex 3.5F, loaded it with Verichrome Pan film and went exploring.&nbsp; Those negatives are now drying in the darkroom and some of the frames came out pretty neat.&nbsp;&nbsp; Among all the buses I did not see any Gilligs, which made me think that they either don't break down at all or that people really cherish them and restore them when they do break.&nbsp; I was there for about an hour and did not see a single living being save for a cat or two.&nbsp; From there I was on my way to Cloverdale CA to present a Magic Lantern Show.&nbsp; </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; There are very few roads that lead from I-5 to the 101 north of San Francisco and I was forced to take highway 20 to the 29.&nbsp; Once you get to 29 there is indeed a sign warning that vehicles over 39ft are not allowed on that road - Gilli is 35ft, so I thought I'd be all right... Little did I anticipate the amount of twists and turns that lay ahead.&nbsp; I swear I am never taking that road again unless I'm in a sports car, in which case it would be very fun and one would have time to enjoy the mountain terrain and the scenery.&nbsp; As it was, Gilli barely made the turns and on one of the particularly cruel right curves a pickup truck appeared from around the corner and was heading straight for me (at that point Gilli's nose was completely in the oncoming traffic lane).&nbsp; I swerved to avoid a head-on collision and, though I succeeded in killing the poor chap in the pickup, I did touch the guard rail with the right side of the bus - the damage was minimal, but there is a new mark on my baby and I feel terrible about it.&nbsp; Someday, hopefully soon, I'll get enough money to give Gilli a new paint job - I'll be sad to see it in a color other than yellow, but I think it would be great to put something definitively photographic on her.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Cloverdale is a nice little town, which I have already mentioned in a previous post.&nbsp; There I stayed with the director of the <a href="http://www.cloverdalehistory.org/" target="_blank">History Center</a>, which houses the Historical Society that invited me for a show.&nbsp; I enjoyed the stay very much and the show went well - there were about 25 people in attendance and I got a lead on an arc-light Lantern with a set of lantern slides that may depict slaves picking cotton.&nbsp; All that is left is to go back there again and help a guy dig through one of his 8(!) storage units...&nbsp; Sounds like fun! </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; From there is was a short drive to <a href="http://www.fortross.org/" target="_blank">Fort Ross</a> where I had a show scheduled the following day.&nbsp; On the way I once again stayed with Barbara Hoffman, the woman responsible for turning me into a Traveling Lanternist.&nbsp; Too bad the visit was rather short as I always enjoy the company of her and her husband Gary.&nbsp; Fort Ross was awaiting and I knew it was going to be a short, but grueling drive.&nbsp; The Fort is an old Russian encampment and was occupied by them in the 19th century, so there is a lot of history there and I was glad to have a chance to do a presentation at such a prominent location.&nbsp; Fort Ross is also located directly on the coast of California, right on the side of highway 1 - quite possibly one of the most beautiful drives in the world.&nbsp; Aside from being a gorgeous piece of civil engineering, highway 1 is an intensely windy road with quite a few hairpin switchbacks, blind turns, steep ups and downs and all the rest that makes driving a joy for sports car owners, but hell for buses.&nbsp; I only had to go about 20 miles each way on it and took it extremely slowly and cautiously, managing to neither fall off a cliff into the ocean nor damage the bus or any other cars that were met along the way.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N0vOlNZNZeo/UUU6JrN7srI/AAAAAAAACl8/Uws6fYT7ddQ/s1600/Fort_Ross2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N0vOlNZNZeo/UUU6JrN7srI/AAAAAAAACl8/Uws6fYT7ddQ/s400/Fort_Ross2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Looking out the door - a pretty straight 300ft drop to the ocean </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8UYtsa0wdss/UUU6KwWgRkI/AAAAAAAACmM/6BTyez-YnJE/s1600/Fort_Ross3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8UYtsa0wdss/UUU6KwWgRkI/AAAAAAAACmM/6BTyez-YnJE/s400/Fort_Ross3.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gilli on highway 1 - she looks so happy to have a break...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_cUw4GC0o8M/UUU6Kcl9k5I/AAAAAAAACmE/4OfhPWUukxU/s1600/Fort_Ross1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_cUw4GC0o8M/UUU6Kcl9k5I/AAAAAAAACmE/4OfhPWUukxU/s400/Fort_Ross1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Gilli at Fort Ross - that would be a great place to come back for some wet plate action</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_uMH0MNFbDQ/UUU6LKsHh1I/AAAAAAAACmU/BErjtp8F_QE/s1600/Fort_Ross_Presentation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_uMH0MNFbDQ/UUU6LKsHh1I/AAAAAAAACmU/BErjtp8F_QE/s400/Fort_Ross_Presentation.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The presentation room was absolutely perfect with high ceilings,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">plenty of soft chairs and a giant screen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After Fort Ross I headed back to the Bay Area and spend one night back at Kirill Krylov's place in Pacifica.&nbsp; As I mentioned before, Kirill is an excellent photographer and it was my joy to hear that&nbsp; my previous visit has given him the motivation to finish outfitting his basement as a darkroom.&nbsp; It is now functional and ready to go!&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; After that is was another short drive to the house of Lee Kalem - Ryan Kalem's father and the man whose electrical skills and wonderful wood shop came in so handy during the initial construction of The Photo Palace Bus just about a year ago.&nbsp; Lee was kind enough to help me fix the last non-functioning light in the presentation area of the bus - turns out that a wire came loose and was shorting out the system, which burned out one of the transformers in it.&nbsp; Lee performed a beautiful soldering operation right on board of the bus and now all the lights are working as they should and we are ready for some night-time presentations.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Ryan got home soon after my arrival and we went to check out his new darkroom.&nbsp; He is quite a craftsman and spared no expense when it came to building his darkroom from scratch.&nbsp; I hope he and his girlfriend Kat will make excellent use of it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EUnmv8wJHc8/UUU-TPZvQjI/AAAAAAAACmY/LGjY28IlouU/s1600/Ryan1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EUnmv8wJHc8/UUU-TPZvQjI/AAAAAAAACmY/LGjY28IlouU/s400/Ryan1.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Ryan's enormous UV exposure unit for alternative printing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dfVKuaypvMk/UUU-TaQ6S7I/AAAAAAAACmg/gRA6kQSBt4A/s1600/Ryan2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dfVKuaypvMk/UUU-TaQ6S7I/AAAAAAAACmg/gRA6kQSBt4A/s400/Ryan2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;The darkroom space is fit for king-size prints.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ksm082fj6LQ/UUU-T0COQfI/AAAAAAAACmo/cbdsH_gaG_s/s1600/Ryan3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ksm082fj6LQ/UUU-T0COQfI/AAAAAAAACmo/cbdsH_gaG_s/s400/Ryan3.jpg" width="298" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Old but trusty Beseler 45 enlarger is soon to be</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">accompanied by a Saunders 4500.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The appearance at Cabrillo College in Aptos was next on the agenda.&nbsp; I was invited there by the Arts Guild and the event was organized by Carmina Eliason, who has been following the development of The Photo Palace from the start. &nbsp; Gilli was prominently parked right by the arts building and we got a lot of visitors all through the day.&nbsp; A beautiful late Victorian room in the Sesnon House, build at the turn of last century, was used for the Lantern Slide presentation.&nbsp; Quite a crowd showed up because Carmina and the Arts Guild did a fair share of advertizement, 75 chairs were all filled up and there were plenty of people standing and sitting on the floor too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D8lV_9p6XTc/UUVMrkHnG3I/AAAAAAAACmw/jnsfV3DPN2A/s1600/484827_10151340702841139_1206829839_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D8lV_9p6XTc/UUVMrkHnG3I/AAAAAAAACmw/jnsfV3DPN2A/s400/484827_10151340702841139_1206829839_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;The beautiful room in Sesnon House.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lMsIv78T13U/UUVMr8BllcI/AAAAAAAACm0/GRrZ4iLNOuI/s1600/66483_630192432990_1774163474_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lMsIv78T13U/UUVMr8BllcI/AAAAAAAACm0/GRrZ4iLNOuI/s400/66483_630192432990_1774163474_n.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gilli on campus of Cabrillo College, image courtesy of Carmina Eliason. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The next day I had to be at Evergreen Valley college for the last of the scheduled events.&nbsp; There I parked a bit away from hustle and bustle of campus in a large parking lot, so there were fewer visitors that stopped by through the day.&nbsp; Along with a Magic Lantern Show and bus visits I also presented a few lucky and adventurous individuals a chance to try their hand at making tintypes.&nbsp; It was NOT a workshop, because with my amount of experience I am not qualified yet to call myself a teacher in that area, but it was more of a 'wet plate experience'.&nbsp; All in all I think it went OK - only 3 people out of 5 that sent their RSVP showed up and that was good because it took all the 1.5 hours allotted for that activity for each one to make a plate of their own.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I am beginning to really like the wet plate process and am looking forward to practicing it more now that I am back in San Diego.&nbsp; Gilli is going to make a perfect Wet Plate Saloon - the amount of water that she carries may be considered minimal required for gelatin silver printing on location, but wet plate requires much less washing, so I'm good for 6 sessions or more.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Speaking of wet plate - on this trip I have picked up a couple of absolutely awesome brass lenses from late 1800s.&nbsp; One of them was purchased on my way back from that same antique shop in LA where I found the French WWI negatives still hiding in a stereoscopic camera.&nbsp; It is a beautiful Rapid Euryscop series 7 with a Benster pneumatic leaf shutter mechanism and I can't wait to figure out a way to fit that giant retaining ring onto some sort of a board that would fit on my 8x10 Kodak 2D.&nbsp; The lens having a 24in focal length should make it perfect for some close-up portraits - Large Heads as they called them back in the day.&nbsp; The other lens, a gorgeous 10in Darlot with an astonishing F-stop of 3.6, was traded along with another Kodak 2D for three Majestic tripods.&nbsp; So now I again find myself with more than 1 Kodak 2D - in 2002 I actually somehow got up to owning 4 of those monsters...&nbsp; So if anyone reading this wants to buy the extra one from me, do drop me a line through email and I can send you pictures of it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nNcSUakQF_w/UUVSx7kpnvI/AAAAAAAACnA/Wyj33lWBg8A/s1600/Kodak_2D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nNcSUakQF_w/UUVSx7kpnvI/AAAAAAAACnA/Wyj33lWBg8A/s320/Kodak_2D.jpg" width="320" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is the Darlot mounted on the 2D.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pictures of the Voigtlander to come later.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The way back to San Diego was uneventful except for one happy occurrence.&nbsp; I like driving in LA (when there's no traffic, which is actually pretty rare) because almost every time I go there I see old Crown buses that are still kept up and on the road by some upper class school districts.&nbsp; Being true classics like my Gilli and they really do look great barreling down the highway.&nbsp; This time I was happy to see one passing me by going north and then another one that caught up to me from behind, passed me by for a little bit, but they fell back again and followed us for about 10 miles.&nbsp; Here are a couple of pictures of the meeting of the giants.&nbsp; I bet we looked pretty cool - like we were going to some vintage bus show.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6NWV93l5ymw/UUVVTdDUz4I/AAAAAAAACnI/VVvVYd5V2WY/s1600/Crown1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6NWV93l5ymw/UUVVTdDUz4I/AAAAAAAACnI/VVvVYd5V2WY/s400/Crown1.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;What's that in my rear view mirror?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O33cL_V5WTk/UUVVUNHOZPI/AAAAAAAACnQ/O6yUajaR7Vs/s1600/Crown2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O33cL_V5WTk/UUVVUNHOZPI/AAAAAAAACnQ/O6yUajaR7Vs/s400/Crown2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gillig was always the underdog of Crown, Blue Bird and International buses,&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">but I think they made a classier bus.&nbsp; I did have a look at the dashboard of this one</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and I must admit that Gilli's dash puts that Crown to shame.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Still these Crowns are really nice and I'm glad to see them running.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; To summarize - I was on the road for exactly 4 weeks.&nbsp; During that time 7 Magic Lantern Shows were given, 3 college campuses were visited, one wet plate photography workshop was taken by me in Portland, I caught up with two dear friends whom I have not seen in years and many people all across California and Oregon got to see Gilli and our history of photography display, which has been augmented with a carbon and gum bichromate prints.&nbsp; Important to note is that this second trip (short as it may have been) actually succeeded in paying for itself - I made no profit, but at least I didn't have to spend all my savings (of which there is really none left after last year's construction and trial run to Maine).&nbsp; Now I am going to start planning the second cross-country trip with hopes of it also financing itself by Lantern Shows, print sales, presentations and workshops.&nbsp; I am hoping to depart in May and am probably going to take the northern route to Washington (a state that I have been promising to visit since last summer) and then eastward to Maine before heading south to Florida and coming back to beautiful California sometime in autumn.&nbsp; I think that route will give me more time on the road without having to worry about hitting foul weather while making it across the Rocky Mountains.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I would like to thank each and every person who has contributed to this journey in any way from financing it through Indiegogo (those funds will now go toward the cross-country trek) to helping me set up events and hosting me at their houses.&nbsp; I could not have done this without you and I am deeply grateful for all your help!&nbsp; Thank YOU!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/03/last-leg-of-west-coast-tour-and-summary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-2854054093441766058Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +00002013-03-08T03:00:07.531-08:00Gilli Visits Home & More <span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; OK, I think it's time to finish up the update about Portland before I forget all that has happened there.&nbsp; Plus a lot has happened since then as well and here it all is in reverse order.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Right now I'm in Chico CA, at my friend Ricardo's place.&nbsp; We graduated at about the same time from San Jose State University and he was the original initiator of The Photo Guild, which I carried on after his departure.&nbsp; I find it very nice to reconnect with him and after having not seen Ricardo for about 5 years it's really good to him not only happily married, but also carrying on with art and music.&nbsp; <a href="http://axitia.org/" target="_blank">His experimental website</a> is like a slow-motion movie, where you chose your own path.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Earlier this afternoon we went out to a local orchard and took a few wet plate portraits and here is Ricardo in all his stoic glory.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AKf1gB0Be24/UTmZfMKKESI/AAAAAAAAClk/dJn-xroVkk4/s1600/Cardo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AKf1gB0Be24/UTmZfMKKESI/AAAAAAAAClk/dJn-xroVkk4/s400/Cardo.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Chico happens to be very close to the place that Gilli-the-Gillig had spent the first part of her peaceful existence while working as a school bus for Durham Unified School District.&nbsp; Today Ricardo and I visited the garage where she lived for 30+ years and had a reunion with the other buses and some of the people who worked with her.&nbsp; Durham is a small town and their bus numbers still only go up to 10, while in 1978 Gilli was assigned #3. Everyone was stunned to know that their bus went all the way to Maine last year.&nbsp; Here are some images from this memorable visit.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YcaoQ1wQbPM/UTkZLtVaChI/AAAAAAAACj4/jCfxGvlyRKs/s1600/Gilli_and_Other_Busses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YcaoQ1wQbPM/UTkZLtVaChI/AAAAAAAACj4/jCfxGvlyRKs/s400/Gilli_and_Other_Busses.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gilli, or #3 as she was known here, was happy to see all her old pals #6 and 7</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-piuNA3kDSCQ/UTkZMBjcakI/AAAAAAAACkA/1sILW2-ICDc/s1600/Kay_behind_the_wheel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rl6LZepQo68/UTkZMPW-VpI/AAAAAAAACkE/CeI_j6fEfn0/s1600/Old_Parking_Spot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rl6LZepQo68/UTkZMPW-VpI/AAAAAAAACkE/CeI_j6fEfn0/s400/Old_Parking_Spot.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to the mechanics, this was the very bay where Gilli resided for over a </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;decade until she was sold in 2011.&nbsp; Now #8 occupies the spot and barely fits in because it's 5 ft longer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-piuNA3kDSCQ/UTkZMBjcakI/AAAAAAAACkA/1sILW2-ICDc/s1600/Kay_behind_the_wheel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-piuNA3kDSCQ/UTkZMBjcakI/AAAAAAAACkA/1sILW2-ICDc/s400/Kay_behind_the_wheel.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is Kay.&nbsp; Mechanics at the garage said that #3 was always her favorite and she did seem happy to see it again.&nbsp; Kay said drove this bus until 2000 and here she is back in her old chair. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; To get to California I had to take a pretty gruesome little mountain pass on I-5 between Ashland and Yreka.&nbsp; The climb to 4300ft was slow and cold.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ObnqW51-WCE/UTkdeq8y0SI/AAAAAAAACkY/_c5t56y0-xk/s1600/Mountain_Pass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ObnqW51-WCE/UTkdeq8y0SI/AAAAAAAACkY/_c5t56y0-xk/s400/Mountain_Pass.jpg" width="298" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was the first time that I saw The Photo Palace Bus surrounded with snow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FyFSXxfS2S4/UTkdfL3QRTI/AAAAAAAACkk/9D-S_xdV1Mc/s1600/Mt_Shasta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FyFSXxfS2S4/UTkdfL3QRTI/AAAAAAAACkk/9D-S_xdV1Mc/s400/Mt_Shasta.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cloaked in clouds, Mt. Shasta looked rather majestic and reminded me a bit of Nepal.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Prior to that I stayed for a day in Eugene with Ryan, a friend from Palomar College whom I have seen in 12 or 13 years.&nbsp; He was instrumental in the conception process of the idea for The Photo Palace Bus back in 1997.&nbsp; Back then he and his girlfriend Melinda took me on a long journey along the West Coast and that is when I saw the bus that inspired the construction of Gilli in 2012.&nbsp; It was incredibly nice to see him and his family.&nbsp; Ryan is quite a talented artist and I only wish he had a website for me to share with you.&nbsp; Majority of his best detailed mandala-like works would alas be too detailed for web and should better be experienced live.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; An amazing moment took place when I saw that Oso - the dog that Ryan got as a puppy in 1997 while on that memorable and life-changing trip.&nbsp; He was a tiny 2 month old puppy and fit in Ryan's hand, then I visited Ryan in California a couple of years later and remember a giant god that was full of life jumping on me with all his might.&nbsp; Now Oso is 16 and a proud senior citizen. &nbsp; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4x5q4LAuc1s/UTmSZPJoa_I/AAAAAAAACkw/Hq0hSEUWwn4/s1600/Oso.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4x5q4LAuc1s/UTmSZPJoa_I/AAAAAAAACkw/Hq0hSEUWwn4/s400/Oso.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; And now to go back all the way to my Portland visit.&nbsp; After I took the wet plate workshop with Ray Bidegain he called up a few friends who work in the medium and live in Portland and we all met up in a little tavern for a beer.&nbsp; All of a sudden I found myself surrounded by 5 people who have been working with collodion for a while and I felt like a complete newbie.&nbsp; Along with Ray Himslef there was Jody Ake - the famous wet plate photographer and a maker of plate holders of highest quality.&nbsp; You can find them on his website <a href="http://incameraindustries.com/">http://incameraindustries.com/</a>.&nbsp; Also there were three of Ray's past students. <a href="http://brandonfernandez.com/" target="_blank">Brandon Fernandez</a>, a superb artistic and commercial shooter.&nbsp; <a href="http://clarkegalusha.com/" target="_blank">Clarke Galusha</a>, who learned the process not too long ago, but has already completed a great series of portraits and held a very successful show with it. &nbsp; And of course <a href="http://portfolio250458.4ormat.com/" target="_blank">Ted Mishima</a>, who connected me to Ray in the first place. &nbsp; </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is the whole gang by The Photo Palace Bus.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7cwE4zhzhJA/UTmV1JAAI4I/AAAAAAAAClE/hHBuXRR77QU/s1600/Portland_Tintype_Crew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7cwE4zhzhJA/UTmV1JAAI4I/AAAAAAAAClE/hHBuXRR77QU/s400/Portland_Tintype_Crew.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ray, Clarke, Ted, Brandon and Jody.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Brandon was very kind in offering me a place to stay for the night and I readily accepted that offer.&nbsp; I met his lovely wife and we had dinner and met up again with Ted in a great little neighborhood of Portland.&nbsp; That city which is growing</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> on me</span> more and more every time I visit.&nbsp; If only it wasn't so rainy there...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; In the morning I headed to see Clarke and his garage-studio.&nbsp; Clarke, like some of the others here, mostly uses strobe lighting for his tintypes and so I got a chance to fire off a portrait of him and he he one of me.&nbsp; I can sit through 4800 watts put through an umbrella and a soft box all day long as long I don't have to go under that 40.000 watt bare bulb monster setup for daguerreotypes ever again.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I am starting on a series of tintype portraits of my favorite cameras.&nbsp; Here is a Rolleiflex posing for the Tachihara.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-90njXd1eUGk/UTmV1eXkR_I/AAAAAAAAClA/Qogug8wSp2s/s1600/Wet_Plate_Portrait_Setup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-90njXd1eUGk/UTmV1eXkR_I/AAAAAAAAClA/Qogug8wSp2s/s400/Wet_Plate_Portrait_Setup.jpg" width="298" />&nbsp;</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; That was Monday and in the evening I had also had a Magic Lantern Show scheduled in <a href="http://newspacephoto.org/" target="_blank">Newspace for Photography</a>.&nbsp; Newspace is a great place for photographers of Portland - with classes on both digital and analog photography, a great rental studio and rental darkrooms it reminded me of Rayko in San Francisco, just a tad smaller.&nbsp; Do stop by if you are ever in Portland area and want to develop a few rolls or want to see some great prints hanging in the gallery in the front.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PJI_baM9aIg/UTmX1n8tumI/AAAAAAAAClY/--wQFUKVgp0/s1600/Newspace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PJI_baM9aIg/UTmX1n8tumI/AAAAAAAAClY/--wQFUKVgp0/s400/Newspace.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; The show went great and the attendance was about 30 people.&nbsp; No slides were inserted upside down, so now I think I have finally got the hang of working the projector, keeping the slides in order and talking at the same time.&nbsp; </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; That about catches up the storyline of the past few days.&nbsp; Tomorrow morning I am off, back to Sonoma County.&nbsp;&nbsp; Next Lantern Slide show is in Cloverdale on Saturday, then Fort Ross on Sunday and next week there are two more, but I think I'll write an update before that time, so I'll leave those announcements for later.&nbsp; With 3 minutes till midnight I am going to finally publish this post and wish everyone a good night.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp; </div></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/03/gilli-visits-home-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-4039959105480471535Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:44:00 +00002013-03-05T11:54:37.094-08:00Corvallis OSU, Magic Lantern Show and Portland&nbsp; A lot has happened in the past few days and I don't know if I'll be able to describe it in as much detail as I would really like to right now because of how tired I am.&nbsp; All I know is that today (technically yesterday as I'm writing this after midnight) I made a tintype picture all on my own using the darkroom in The Photo Palace Bus!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6viK9eamzpk/UTRfeWHgKkI/AAAAAAAACig/ze18IwAvMNM/s1600/Frist_Tintype_Kodak_2D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6viK9eamzpk/UTRfeWHgKkI/AAAAAAAACig/ze18IwAvMNM/s400/Frist_Tintype_Kodak_2D.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">4x5 tintype of Kodak 2D 8x10 camera with Darlot lens </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; More about that later, let's take it one step at a time...</div><br /><br />&nbsp; On Wednesday I arrived to Corvallis and stayed in a lovely company of Julia Bradshaw and her husband John.&nbsp; I met Julia at San Jose State University, where she was getting her Masters degree in Photography while I was a lowly undergrad.&nbsp; Now she teaches at Oregon State University and has invited The Photo Palace Bus to visit their campus in the role of a visiting artist.&nbsp; I was happy to have that opportunity and to reconnect with Julia.&nbsp; She is a wonderful artist and I admire that she works a lot with analog photographic means.&nbsp; Once, as a performance piece at a gallery, she even constructed a cardboard photo booth, hid herself in the and was processing images during the show!&nbsp; First off that project is not for claustrophobic people and it also shows dome serious dedication and love for gelatin silver prints.&nbsp; I highly recommend checking out <a href="http://www.juliabradshaw.com/" target="_blank">her website</a> and seeing the amazing amount of work completed over the years.&nbsp; Aside from being a prolific artist she is also a great host and her husband was a delight to meet as well.&nbsp; They are both originally from England and it was a relief to speak with someone who not only enjoys soccer, but also calls it by its proper name - football!<br /><br />&nbsp; When I got to OSU on Thursday morning I had a full agenda ahead of me.&nbsp; There were 4 classes that were scheduled to visit the bus and see the history of photography exhibit and I knew that I also would get a lot of people wandering into the bus because of its prominent location - right in front of the Art building.&nbsp; As I expected, I barely had a moment of rest.&nbsp; The classes were full of eager students and a big yellow bus did in fact pull in quite a few other pedestrians.&nbsp; Her is a shot of one of the students figuring out the working of a stereographic viewer.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hctam7pVaDk/UTRZw6zu66I/AAAAAAAACiA/SNx2bYH_52c/s1600/OSU_Lecture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hctam7pVaDk/UTRZw6zu66I/AAAAAAAACiA/SNx2bYH_52c/s320/OSU_Lecture.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br /><br />&nbsp; Among other memorable moments that happened during the roughly 6.5 hours at OSU, all of which I can not describe now as it is past midnight and I have a full day tomorrow, was my chance to meet Steve Anchell - the man whose book 'The Darkroom Cookbook' I have been using as reference for many years.&nbsp; Steve was very personable and down to earth kinda guy and even took me out to lunch.&nbsp; He did give me a very useful tip on how to cut down on the washing time for fiber based gelatin silver prints by using alkaline fixer and I believe I will do that as soon as I get my hands on that particular fixer.&nbsp; Steve is not only extremely well-versed in photo chemistry, but he puts that&nbsp; knowledge to use in making some great photographs.&nbsp; You can see those and a lot more information about Steve and his work on <a href="http://www.steveanchell.com/" target="_blank">his site here</a>.&nbsp; At the end of the day Steve's second class came in for a visit and he was kind enough to present me with a signed copy of the third edition of his famous Cookbook.&nbsp; <br /><br />&nbsp; During the course of the day a small team of two student journalists were sent from the OSU media department - one recorded an interview with yours truly for the radio and the other one took some great shots.&nbsp; As I don't have too many quality images of Gilli and me I did ask him to send some over my way and here is one of my favorites.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fmrruo1k8OQ/UTRdLdI8tOI/AAAAAAAACiQ/5A_5YuHHvbg/s1600/Bus_and_Self_with_Polaroid_small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fmrruo1k8OQ/UTRdLdI8tOI/AAAAAAAACiQ/5A_5YuHHvbg/s400/Bus_and_Self_with_Polaroid_small.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />&nbsp; After OSU was a Magic Lantern Show sponsored by Williamette Valley Photo Guild.&nbsp; I think it went well and I only hope to be able to post some images from that event on here soon - Mitchel (the OSU photographer) did make it to the show and I can't wait to see his photos.&nbsp; The room inside of an old brick building was very much in tune to the event and I think that added to the show's atmosphere.&nbsp; About 25-30 people attended and among them there was once again a member of the Rahill family.&nbsp; The grand-niece Faith Rahill lives in the area and blessed us with her presence.&nbsp; Her grandfather was John Rahill's brother and it was really cool to reconnect Faith with a part of her own family history.<br />&nbsp; I think the show went pretty well, there were many remarks and questions from the audience and I'm always happy to have an engaged crowd.&nbsp; I did my best to get the show to fit in under 1.5 hours' time and I think I barely succeeded in that goal.&nbsp; Also fewer slides were inserted backwards or upside down, so that's a step in the positive direction.<br /><br />&nbsp; After yet another night in the comforts of Julia's couch I was off to Portland.&nbsp; There I met with another college friend of mine Perry.&nbsp; He graduated from SJSU just a semester earlier than me and the least time I saw him was in 2007, when he attended my little 'farewell USA'&nbsp; event during which I burned a large shark made from 100 paper plates before moving to Japan for a year.&nbsp; Perry is now in the middle of getting his MFA from Portland State University and he took me on a little tour of the little darkroom that is still in existence there.&nbsp; There are only 6 enlargers there and I don't know how a class can really work with that... Here is the man himself and about 2/3 of the darkroom all in one shot.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2xdhumDIg84/UTRiFdbAbPI/AAAAAAAACiw/H33BkNceKV8/s1600/Perry_and_lab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2xdhumDIg84/UTRiFdbAbPI/AAAAAAAACiw/H33BkNceKV8/s400/Perry_and_lab.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />&nbsp; One thing I have been looking forward to on this trip was taking a wet plate collodion workshop with Ray Bidegain.&nbsp; I met Ray on Facebook through another wet plate shooter by the name of Ted Mishima.&nbsp; Ted shoots tintypes using a Rolleiflex TLR camera and posts some of them in the Rolleiflex users group.&nbsp; Seeing that he lives in Portland I asked him if he was able to show me the technique when I'm in the area, but he referred me to his mentor Ray.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ray is a platinum printer as well and offers workshops, which I very much recommend.&nbsp; You can find the info about them on <a href="http://www.raybidegain.com/" target="_blank">Ray's website</a>.<br /><br />I could not wait to try my hand in that historic and beautiful process and when Saturday came around I was at Ray's door at 10am.&nbsp; After a little bit of shuffling some cars out of the way of Gilli, I entered Ray's basement where a very efficient darkroom and photo storage area have been set up.&nbsp; Here are a couple of quick shots to give you an idea of what a darkroom of someone heavily invested in alternative photography looks like.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WKcV8TpAXzw/UTRkko3RWYI/AAAAAAAACjA/h6wf-7WRETM/s1600/Ray_Lab1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WKcV8TpAXzw/UTRkko3RWYI/AAAAAAAACjA/h6wf-7WRETM/s400/Ray_Lab1.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the actual 'dark' part - in the sink you can see the slanted</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">silvering tank that is used to sensitize plates.&nbsp; </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OA8F7NNVP4o/UTRklMZgUyI/AAAAAAAACjI/zzn0GpZYX68/s1600/Ray_lab2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OA8F7NNVP4o/UTRklMZgUyI/AAAAAAAACjI/zzn0GpZYX68/s400/Ray_lab2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The room right next to it has a large assortment of chemistry for</div><div style="text-align: center;">both of the processes, in the right bottom corner you can see a&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">well built UV exposure unit for platinum prints.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp; Wet plate process is by far easier to do than daguerreotype, which is why most photographers switched to it quickly after it was introduced in 1853.&nbsp; That said, it is still a VERY demanding process and it takes quite a bit of attention and skill to get a 'perfect plate'.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp; First an aluminum or glass plate has to be coated with a viscous substance called 'collodion'.&nbsp; That step is tricky in that the action has to be smooth and flawless and there are certain movements and motions that have to happen rather precisely in order for the final result to be of any significant quality.&nbsp; After about 10-15 seconds during which one must keep swinging the plate in a vertical position to break up streaks the colldion sets (not dries, but becomes more viscous).&nbsp; It is then submerged into the tank containing silver nitrate for 3 minutes.&nbsp; That sensitizes the plate and so the red lights are switched on before it is taken out, wiped off to get the residual silver off and placed in the holder.&nbsp; You don't have much time at that point as the image must be captured and processed before that collodion dried out.&nbsp; In order for that to happen you must have your view camera set up and the model patiently waiting.&nbsp; At first I was using the 4x5 camera and training my skills on the large, but beautiful model that is Gilli-the-bus, so there were no problems with the model getting impatient.&nbsp; After the plate is exposed in the camera it must be taken back into the red-lit room and flooded with developing solution - again a motion that will likely take me a few more tries to got good at.&nbsp; Developer acts quickly and you must judge the process by eye and only after 15 seconds or so, just as you see the milkiness of the shadow areas start to yield detail, rinse the developer off with water.&nbsp; Then the plate is placed in ordinary thiosulfate fixing bath and there the image is finally revealed in its positive form.&nbsp; Here is one of the very first plates from the workshop at the half-way point of clearing by fixer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dwCd74EtenE/UTRpZE7ebjI/AAAAAAAACjY/y_zkwIKRKqg/s1600/Tintype_Workshop_first_plate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dwCd74EtenE/UTRpZE7ebjI/AAAAAAAACjY/y_zkwIKRKqg/s400/Tintype_Workshop_first_plate.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp;Luckily Ted Mishima showed up right as I was starting to work with a larger camera and he was willing to guard the camera and even posed for a couple of pictures.&nbsp; Here is Ted leaning up against Gilli for support and my Kodak 2D with a 5x7 back on it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IW3lUTAiZOw/UTRprld-WPI/AAAAAAAACjg/X7mkhgF6n0I/s1600/Tintype_workshop_Ted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IW3lUTAiZOw/UTRprld-WPI/AAAAAAAACjg/X7mkhgF6n0I/s400/Tintype_workshop_Ted.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">&nbsp; After a full day of work I succeeded in getting a few relatively good plates and here they are in the&nbsp; drying rack.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3U7X9XvzU6Q/UTRp9vFxUhI/AAAAAAAACjo/mX3QZzacdGU/s1600/Tintype_Workshop_plates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3U7X9XvzU6Q/UTRp9vFxUhI/AAAAAAAACjo/mX3QZzacdGU/s400/Tintype_Workshop_plates.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Ray helped me mix my chemistry kit, sold me a few plates to keep me going through this trip and helped me fill up Gilli's water tank for the next day, so I can practice what I just learned.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; In the morning I woke up to a rather rainy skies, but that sis not deter me from trying my hand at this new-to-me process on my own.&nbsp; I set the Kodak 2D up on the table in the bus, pointed a 4x5 camera at it and went on to make 4 exposures in the course of about 1.5 hours (3.5 if you count this newbie setting up and breaking down all the needed equipment).&nbsp; Exposures with this process, which has an emulsion with ISO rating of approximately 1, were 3 minutes long - partly due to the fact that I was parked next to a wall and the light from an-already grey sky had to bounce off that wall to enter the bus window and possibly partly due to the fact that wet collodion works better in warmer temperatures and it was 48°F in the darkroom while I was working.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>&nbsp; I love all that is involved in making tintypes and can not wait to get better at it.&nbsp; For now you can see one of the better frames that I arrived at today at the top of this post.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">&nbsp; Now it is time for me to seep and I will finish the rest of the story of Portland, it's wet plate community and yet another Magic Lantern Show that I will give at Newspace for Photography this evening (in about 16 hours) some other time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anton Orlov</div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/03/corvallis-osu-magic-lantern-show-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333055182421634626.post-7401339325472560054Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:16:00 +00002013-02-27T16:16:20.751-08:00Vaughn Hutchins and Other News<span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Last week I</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> arrived to Arcata CA and parked Gilli securely in the back of a quiet alley for a couple of nights.&nbsp; Arcata has a special place in my heart.&nbsp; It was the first stop on a vagabond hitchhiking trip I embarked upon back in 1997, which opened up my eyes to the fact that I really don't want to be a bio-chemist and made me switch my major in college to photography.&nbsp; It was also during that trip that I saw a glass-blowing bus and was infected with the idea of someday building a darkroom bus.&nbsp; It did take me a while to get all my ducks in a row and make that dream a reality and finally pulling into Arcata in The Photo Palace Bus was a very sweet feeling.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; While there I met with Don Anton - a photography professor at Humboldt State University and we discussed The Bus visiting that fine institution during the fall semester. Don was pretty excited about my mission and the visit was brief but pleasant.&nbsp; I think I can swing by HSU on my way back from the East Coast sometime in September or October, hopefully it won't be as cold then as it was last week...</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I also had a great pleasure of meeting Vaughn Hutchins - a respected carbon printer and a very nice fellow indeed.&nbsp; He contributed greatly to the historic print collection by donating a beautiful carbon print from an original 4x5in negative on 8x10 gelatin photo paper.&nbsp; </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; It appears that Vaughn got the idea of printing in carbon back in 1990 after he read an article on it in Black and White magazine, but it was 2 years later that he actually started on that path.&nbsp; Carbon is a pretty demanding technique and he said that it took him a while to get prints of consistent quality that he was satisfied with.&nbsp; In vented in 1855 by Alphonse Poitevin this method of printing relies on gelatin becoming insoluble when mixed this potassium dichromate and exposed to light.&nbsp; It is a transfer process that uses pigments, which could be of any color and could be combined through CMYK separations to create full color images.&nbsp; Because of the use of pigment it is a highly archival process and due to it being a transfer process it presents the image reversed left to right unless a second transfer is performed.&nbsp; It seems that the quality of carbon prints that first attracted me is the same one that caught Vaughn's eye as well.&nbsp; You see, due to the image being composed of minute layers of gelatin with pigment mixed into it and those layers sitting on top of the support paper each value can actually be seen as a miniature plateau raised above the white of the supporting surface.&nbsp; That gives photographs printed in carbon a very unique look reminiscent of 3D.&nbsp; Vaughn also pointed out that carbon can hold a tremendous range of light - 13+ stops!&nbsp; He said that it was the only technique that can adequately relate the range of lighting found in a redwood forest, where even on an overcast day the shadows are far below the slivers of sky that one may catch through the giant overhanging branches.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Having practiced carbon printing now for over 20 years, Vaughn teaches new printers how to use this beautiful technique in workshops all over the country.&nbsp; He does also occasionally prints in platinum.&nbsp; He uses original in-camera negatives ranging from 4x5in to 11x14in and perhaps on my way back south I may have a pleasure to seeing an 11x14 carbon print.&nbsp; For now here is a link to his website where you can see some of his work, read the blog, see the impressive list of exhibits and contact Vaughn to inquire about his upcoming workshops.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://vaughnhutchins.com/" target="_blank">Vaughn Hutchins Photography</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; On a sadder note Arcata was the final stop on the journey of Kenneth Moilanen, on a sudden and premature departure of I reported a few months back.&nbsp; Kenneth was a good friend of mine, always full of life, cheer and ideas and strife for making the world a better place for all of us.&nbsp; He died in a car accident late at night on a desolate industrial street on the outskirts of Arcata and left all who knew him with a feeling of deep loss.&nbsp; On my way out of town I visited the place where Ken's tracks upon this planet ended and made a little memorial offering upon the spot where his Volvo met a large stored part of a steel bridge.&nbsp; Rest in Peace Kenneth.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C23GJbnfUyQ/US6fs-RuMzI/AAAAAAAACgw/Ot51tVwvpwU/s1600/Paco_Flowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C23GJbnfUyQ/US6fs-RuMzI/AAAAAAAACgw/Ot51tVwvpwU/s400/Paco_Flowers.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; Now, a couple of announcements as far as the nearest future of The Photo palace Bus and Magic Lantern Show that is offered by it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; I am now in Corvallis OR, where tomorrow I will be present on campus of Oregon State University giving photography students here a chance to view the print collection from 10am to 4pm.&nbsp; Then at 7pm there will be a Magic Lantern Show sponsored by the local Photo Guild.&nbsp; The show is located at 800 SW Jefferson ave.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Next stop is Portland where I look forward to finally getting my hands-on experience with wet plate photography with Ray Bidegain.&nbsp; There I will also hold a Magic Lantern Show on Monday March 4th at Newspace for Photography (again at 7pm).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;Then it's back south for Gilli and me - we have Lantern Shows scheduled for March 9th and 10th in Sonoma County.&nbsp; They will be held in Cloverdale and Fort Ross respectively and I will update my readers with exact details on the next post.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp; For now I would like to invite all who live around Corvallis and Portland to keep tomorrow night and March 4th open and come and enjoy the shows!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anton Orlov</span></div>http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/02/vaughn-hutchins-and-other-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (The Photo Palace Bus)2